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MC1952
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Missing letter

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I just noticed this. Both sides of my Philly Sterlingworth.
The “I” is missing. Looks like it was never stamped.
Is this normal?
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Re: Missing letter

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Them thrifty folks in the 4600 block of N. 18th Street seem to have regularly used the STERLINGWORTH roll stamps well past the expiration of their useful life.
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Re: Missing letter

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Never say never MC, that could be a six figure Sterly at Rock Island! Think about that million-dollar postage stamp printed with the upside down bi-plane. Or maybe Becker played a hand in it? He was reported to suffer from a lazy "I." Definitely a conversation piece!!
On the whole....I'd rather be in Philadelphia....
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It got worse
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The stamp finally broke altogether
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It has always amazed me that the late Charles Semmer used two pages of his book, Remington Double Shotguns, on some guns where the stamp on the sides of the frames REMINGTON ARMS CO. was beginning to break and a bit of the O of CO. broke out making it look like a backwards C and filled in the C making it look like an O.
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