Mystery Myachi Revealed

by Crazy Ivan

Over on the forum there was a flurry of guessing about the identity of my "Mystery Myachi".  I guess it was to be expected that eventually someone would get it right.  Now, if I wanted to be easy about it I would just reveal the identity, but I figured it would be more fun to show you all the clues that would have led you to figure it out on your own.

The first thing you noticed (I'm guessing) is that the tag was on the wrong side of the Myachi.  This was pretty obvious, but this was also the clue that might have given you the correct answer.  But instead of the tag, let's begin by focusing on some of the other clues you can see in the pic:

You can see right away that the stitching is also on the wrong side.  The closed end of a Myachi should be on the left rather than the right.  This means that the sack is either midmade in several ways, or the tag is actually on the correct side.  If it is on the correct side, the only conclusion you can come to is that the tag isn't on the wrong side, it's facing the wrong way...

You can also see that we're dealing with a pretty recent Myachi.  There's a woven tag there and, as you likely already noticed.  That means we're not dealing with something mad early.  Instead, it would have to be a recent edition sack.  The led many to believe that it was a Hunter Green...

You would have to be a real Myachi fanatic to notice, however, that the stitching is not consistent with the woven tagged Hunter Greens.  Most of the surviving Hunter Greens (and QSP Greens for that matter) had keychain loops and all the Mexican sacks had much shorter "whips" (the space between the end of the Myachi and the sew line).  This means that the Myachi must have been made after series 0.7...

But if we turn it a little bit further:

Then it becomes really obvious what we're dealing with here.  The FMX and the "Made in China" help, but not as much as seeing the front of the Myachi.  What makes it so hard to identify is that when you see it, because you see the front of the tag you assume you're looking at the front of the Myachi.  Even when you realize you're not, it's still hard to think about the fact that it might look completely different on the other side:

And before anyone asks... no, that one is not up for trades.