I actually picked this up a few months back but just received the "official" word today from Hunt Auctions. Hunt handles all appraisals for the Louisville Slugger Museum and I was referred to them by museum staff.
Period stamping gave me a date range from 1897-1911 however, when comparing it to my 1911-16 model bat, I felt pretty confident that it was one of the first bats produced by Hillerich and was steering more towards 1897. After analyzing, they too agreed and further provided the Zebra Stripe info as I was not familiar with it myself.
Pretty cool piece of history
