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Hope you're right, but don't quit your day job until it arrives. We can help authenticate it.
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ooooo, this oughta be goooooood! I'd best be hoping its a real, damaged date 1858...than a cheap Chinese fake 1856 that costs $2 from the no-no site. I can get 1858's, both size letters for $15 on Proxibid  Edited by Crazyb0
02/01/2018 4:20 pm
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I would wait until I get it in hand to celebrate. It is most likely what it is labeled to be.  In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
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Not to burst your bubble ,but the 6 in date could be an 8. we won't know until you have it in hand and take close ups of the date . Hope your right and I'm wrong .  |
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Possible Damaged 8, can see the hits, the F in OF is right is pattern for the 56, but is this one of hunderds of thousands of fakes?. Addendum: take a good look at the down leg of the center post of "F", if I'm not mistaken that is a marker of fake. Let Earle42 in...    Edited by Crazyb0
02/01/2018 4:36 pm
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Don't get your hopes up too much...I think you got what you paid for.
The O in OF and the 5 in the date look like those on the 1858.
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02/01/2018 4:47 pm
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Right Butch - the F in OF isn't even close to what it's supposed to look like. Not to mention the center post of the M is looking too fat.
I think the best the OP can hope for is if they send him the 1858 in the 2X2 pictured.
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02/01/2018 4:51 pm
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And the 1856 did not have "small letters". That redesign came in 1858. So this must be an 1858.
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Doesn't look like an 1856 to me. Don't quit your job yet.
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Hope you're right, but don't quit your day job until it arrives. We can help authenticate it. Good advice. |
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 It is indeed an 1858. Now I can see that from a certain angle it looks like an 1856. Don't worry I didn't quit my job |
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Well, darn. I was actually getting excited for you.
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Me, too. Better luck next time.
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