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Dwight Gruber · 12-15-2009, 12:41 PM

That would be the place. Any chance you can post a good, straight-on closeup?

--Dwight

ieyres · 12-15-2009, 04:24 PM

Hi,

pics enclosed, please excuse the bad quality

From touch it doesnt feel like too much material has been removed and there are still a couple of pit marks visible.

I'm not sure how deep the 1920 stamp would have been, I guess if was a shallow stamp then it may well have been removed, if however it was as deep as the original 1918 stamp, then perhaps theres more chance there wasnt one..

I guess its going to be hard to be sure on this one.

anyway hope they help....

Dwight Gruber · 12-15-2009, 09:14 PM

It looks like the chamber was pretty harshly ground. Chamber stamps are very much shallower than you would expect, and when removed with care the only way you can tell is by minute differences in surface unevenness which show up by specular reflection. The grinding here is easily enough to obliterate a 1920 property stamp.

--Dwight

12-15-2009, 04:24 PM	#42
ieyres User Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: UK Posts: 15 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Hi, pics enclosed, please excuse the bad quality From touch it doesnt feel like too much material has been removed and there are still a couple of pit marks visible. I'm not sure how deep the 1920 stamp would have been, I guess if was a shallow stamp then it may well have been removed, if however it was as deep as the original 1918 stamp, then perhaps theres more chance there wasnt one.. I guess its going to be hard to be sure on this one. anyway hope they help.... Attached Thumbnails

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12-15-2009, 12:41 PM	#41
Dwight Gruber User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Portland, Oregon Posts: 3,908 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1,330 Times in 435 Posts	That would be the place. Any chance you can post a good, straight-on closeup? --Dwight

12-15-2009, 09:14 PM	#43
Dwight Gruber User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Portland, Oregon Posts: 3,908 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1,330 Times in 435 Posts	It looks like the chamber was pretty harshly ground. Chamber stamps are very much shallower than you would expect, and when removed with care the only way you can tell is by minute differences in surface unevenness which show up by specular reflection. The grinding here is easily enough to obliterate a 1920 property stamp. --Dwight