well MK, they do say your suppose to play the things not look at them most of the time, so I wouldn't worry about it. It still is a sparkleGreen TBX, and there still are even fewer sparkle than the painted ones out there and for all we know it could have originaslly been the guitar for the pictures in the catalog, and finally sold to a dealer, and thru the years it passed thru quite a few hands
I always wanted a 94/5 Futura
LX Pro NT, but those are very hard to find so I bid really low on a Futura
EX Pro BO and surprisingly won the damn thing so now I have both basses listed on page 13 of the 95 Catalog...lol