Yup.... either way, SOMEONE is eating crow! 
could be me. 
Furthermore.... If I'm wrong and those are simply two ghost rifles that were in the century batch, we have another issue to contend with.
What would the order be then?...
1) /26\ sino
2) non /26\ ghost
3) /26\ 6 digit
Dont make any dang sense to start applying the /26\, then stop, then start again? 
If we could verify that they started this ghost gun run w/o the /26\ and then at some known S/N magically started using the /26\ stamp, my opinion would be:
1) '55ish Initial Sino-Soviet startup test run, w/o /26\, 100% Russian supplied hardware, Soviet-Sinos were the first 2000? produced on fresh receivers pulled from the Tula assembly line (already star stamped), Arctic birch stocks with bottom swivels?
2) '56 First domestically produced run, 4/5/6 digit ghosts w/o /26\
3) '57 Sino-Banian 6 digit /26\
4) '58 Sino-Banian 2 mil /26\
5) '59 Sino-Banian 3 mil /26\
6) '60-62 Sino-Soviet /26\ first time we see the side swivels as standard. Russians cleaned out their old supplies as they 100% wound down production. Chinese didn't want to contaminate their domestic lines, but weren't going to waste all the freebies the Ruskies gave them.
x) '63?? 6 million /26\
That's taking major liberties with assumptions on data we don't even have yet though!
Right now I can say I'm as right as you until we get some additional solid data!
