So something that had been on my mind and has been touched on by you guys, is if the Special was badged upon release, and if so, how? My initial feeling also was that it wasn't badged, so I did a little digging:

This is the earliest Special pamphlet, followed by a detail of the mower - not sure if any of you have ever seen this one:

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So what does this tell us?

*In the initial phase of the Special's marketing, they had already moved to "2 mighty mowers" not three.

*The Special badge as we know it had still not been designed, as evidenced by the detail in the pamphlet. It appears they had the idea but had not yet applied it. Confirmation that the Special was released un-badged?