Need help with an old Parker

[OH Osthaus]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

No, those numbers were hand stamped with a separate die for each digit. Notice that the 4 at the right is done with a different die than the 4 next to it..... this is something I don't understand and can't even speculate on.

each machinist has his own set of tools, and they are very often not company supplied. so- if two different craftsman were involved - different stamps would be used. And even for one man - he may have mixed stamps- I have some of my grandfathers stamps- they don't all match and there is more than one of some digits. I assume as they wore out or were lost other sets or individual stamps were added. I think we have seen that odd 4 with the light strike on the upper left on other guns