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Missing letter
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2026 2:18 pm
by MC1952
I just noticed this. Both sides of my Philly Sterlingworth.
The “I” is missing. Looks like it was never stamped.
Is this normal?
Re: Missing letter
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2026 3:36 pm
by Researcher
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.
Re: Missing letter
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2026 4:42 pm
by TOOL MAN
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!!
Re: Missing letter
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2026 4:44 pm
by fox-admin
It got worse
Re: Missing letter
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2026 5:54 pm
by setterspell
Re: Missing letter
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2026 6:14 pm
by Researcher
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.