sorting a lot of late 70's / early to mid 80's minifigs i encountered two problems with parts i can't find information on:
first, there was a bunch of old style hollow torsos with (on first sight) the expected pale yellow hands of the time. the surprise came when i took the hands out. according to the information i can get, all the pale yellow hands should have a notch on the arm part, which was also present on some of the earliest plain yellow hands of the early 80's (see e.g. here). now about 25% of the hands i found in the lot (middle in the picture) have exactly the straight shape of the later version (right in the picture) and exactly the color of the old ones with notch (left in the picture). has anyone any idea what goes on here?
second, i found 3(!) exemplars of a hat looking exactly like the forestmen hats (bricklink) which according to my knowledge were only produced in brown and green. but mine are red (see pictures). they seem genuine (lego logo on the inside, normal shade of red, right feel of the material). who misses what here?
any help with these is much appreciated
(apologies for the low quality pictures, i shall try to make better ones…)