I was not involved with the board at the time the decision was made to restore No. 3 and make the replicas to fund the restoration. Around 2-3 weeks ago I was up at the Floyd County Museum checking the inventory of HPOCA items they had on hand. At that point I found out that they only had 3 left. I emailed Chris and asked him to change the opening page on the website to reflect that. I did that to help get the last 3 sold ASAP and to help avoid any problems for the Floyd County Museum staff. Back in December when we ran out of some belt buckles and pewter key chains they caught some flack from people who still wanted them. Chris has discontinued running the No.3 ad in the magazine to free up valuable space for a possible paying customer. I have checked with Terry Allen and he doesn't have any of the No. 3's on hand either. So to the best of my knowledge the 3 left at the museum are all that are left.

As far as the accounting on the project goes I am not in a position to speak to that. I have heard that a large number of the replica's arrived to the customers broken or damaged, but I don't have an exact number on that.

Marc Sletten
Director of Promotions &amp; Publicity