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query on Date??

#1 Post by sheeow » Wed Oct 21, 2020 8:37 pm

Hi All have just received this Album from up North and it had this stranger in it I was wondering if someone could help.. thanks in advance Not a bad date for a George lol.
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Re: query on Date??

#2 Post by admin » Wed Oct 21, 2020 9:59 pm

Looks like a case of a double strike to me. There is some doubling of the letters, greater at the top. In the process of making a second lighter but off-centre strike we get a second 6 in the year. So it's 1916 rather than 1966.
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#3 Post by sheeow » Thu Oct 22, 2020 9:14 am

thanks Admin that solves a problem for me now i look the obvious comes about
Cheers Ian.P
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