They arrived!
I'm kind of.. amazed, actually. For $450 each, I was certain something was going to be very wrong. But they are exactly as the seller suggested - fully working. I thought the deal might be going sideways initially because the second one did not match the picture and had the white ST color keyboard. However, on further research it appears this is a legit Falcon thing - before the familiar grey with dark gray keyboard Falcons, there was apparently another couple of iterations.. one in 'Sparrow' colours with red and yellow typeface keys, and then a middle one that used the ST colour keyboard and case, and was apparently used in trade shows, development, etc. Most Falcons seem to have a serial that starts with Y.. the 'ST' case one here starts with a B.
As it turned out, the seller posted a *third* one, and I grabbed it because after seeing the white keyboard on the second one I was sure these had been too good to be true, and when they showed up they would not work, or be damaged, or something. But lo and behold, they aren't. I'm still wondering if the guts are true Falcon or not... still suspicious. But here is the boot screen - and they go into TOS. Gotta find a mouse and see what else I can learn. Don't really want to open them if I don't have to.
Not sure what I'm going to do with them. I was hoping they would all be the same - and that I could sell all but one, to pay off my 'investment' and not be beheaded by my wife. But I wasn't counting on one or two of them being the rarer 'second' version. Now it's not going to be so easy.
The third one arrived at MyUS and also appears to be a beige unit.