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Joe D.I would guess that the 'Date on top of the head' version came first.
My only reason is - 'over the head' is a crappy positioning for the date. I couldn't imagine taking the type that was positioned to the right and deciding to try to squeeze it in over the guys head. I could imagine someone trying to 'fix' that version and moving the type off to that spot on the right.
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call me silly, but the period after the year 1910 (in both versions) also leads me to believe that the 'over the head' positioning came first. The period looks like it belongs in the over-the-head version because it is part of a grouping of words. The period is out of place if the 1910 is by itself. But it is there because that block of type was pulled from the top and moved down to the right middle. The person who did this could have easily eliminated the period but did not. But I don't think the period would be there at all if the first spot for the date was the middle right. (I guess its a stretch - but it makes sense to me)