[J. A. EARLY]

Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

One would not need to read Johnson's book to recognize that rendering of "Titanic" as an alteration of the factory marking. There was a great wealth of Parker knowledge in the years before Johnson's book was published.

So how does someone restamp TITANIC over DAMASCUS that has been removed, yet one can still see the Damascus pattern in the rib below the roll stamp with no evidence of filing/grinding and welding up? Isn't it just possible that it was a rare mistake?