Question on some old Griffin colors

[Chuuya]

I was just browsing ebay casually, and noticed some of the old brown Griffins for sale – that is, the ones from back when the Griffins only came in brown and black. There almost seemed to be two versions of him – one with darker brown on the wings, and one with no brown on the wings at all. Does anyone know if there is a difference between the two? Is one of them NOT the original brown Griffin? Or did they come in slightly different variations? I’m just curious. Here are the links to the images:

Griffins with brown on wings:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Windstone-Griffin-Cream-Brown-with-Blue-Eyes-/251097666600?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a76965428

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Windstone-Griffin-Cream-Brown-with-Blue-Eyes-/280911892504?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4167a75018

Griffin without brown:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Windstone-Editions-RETIRED-Tan-Cream-Male-Griffin-statue-w-Blue-Eyes-/320936467080?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4ab94dda88#ht_500wt_1287

[Skylover]

The old brown griffins do come in two varieties. The first picture is the rarer “stripey winged” version. The second is the more common non-stripey winged version. Both are legitimate. If you look in the store, there were actually two versions of females made so that people could get whichever version matched their old brown male.

[Pam]

The stripey wings may also have had a darker blue eye color than the non-stripeys. At least mine does.

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