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I've been an avid collector of Brit machines for 30 years and I've seen a lot of that. Poorly done. Almost perfectly done. And the whole range. When I first checked the number and found it outside of the range I thought that may be the issue, so I examined it very closely. There are no ghost numbers. No distortion in the metal from removing the old numbers. The stamped numbers look perfect. Possible, but an extremely gifted counterfeit would be required to do this. I'm not wholesale dismissing the possibility, but I find it on the unlikely end. I may never have an answer to this.

[QUOTE="Lightningpower, post: 456304, member: 10623"] I've been an avid collector of Brit machines for 30 years and I've seen a lot of that. Poorly done. Almost perfectly done. And the whole range. When I first checked the number and found it outside of the range I thought that may be the issue, so I examined it very closely. There are no ghost numbers. No distortion in the metal from removing the old numbers. The stamped numbers look perfect. Possible, but an extremely gifted counterfeit would be required to do this. I'm not wholesale dismissing the possibility, but I find it on the unlikely end. I may never have an answer to this. [/QUOTE]