heres a good question… if it was a prototype, wouldn’t melody have written “prototype” on the bottom since they are special? also, wouldn’t it have been number in pen also on the bottom, say #13/50 or something like that? folks who have prototypes: what is on the bottom of yours? i don’t have one to know any better, but i thought they had more that just a signature on the bottom with those….hmm. π seems fishy to me…wierd.