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Frank, I totally agree. In fact, I will go one step further and argue that all Factory 25, Sweet Caps are more difficult (150, 25 and 250-460, 25). Factory 25 must have had low production, or as you posit, been late to the game each year.
Here are my only other Piedmont Factory 42's. I find these backs super tough; harder than Cycle 460, Tolstoi, and Sovereign 460. I think they don't get the proper love lately because they are Piedmont; same way the SC factory 25's don't get the love they deserve. The Evers factory 42 has been so tough that this is the best I have been able to find for my back run; I am pretty sure it had the same owner as the Tinker fact 42 currently in Heritage.