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Rest in Peace
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Replies suggest how busy we all are with life's pressing matters.  Yep. I love a good puzzle. So -- I checked out gang symbols. Doesn't match any of them and I'm probably on a 'watch list' now. I wonder if it was a company logo. |
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Pillar of the Community
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I also love a good mystery (and too much time on my hands). I wonder what the chances are that a small company logo from the 1950s would even be on the internet. I'm picturing a mom & pop electronics store stamping a few pennies as a promotional gimmick. I'm also curious if this is really what a counterstamp looks like (since I don't know anything about them). It seems like a lot of displaced metal for something so large and deep, and some of the edges seem really sharp and irregular. I wonder if it was just a one-off with some kind of engraving tool.  |
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Replies suggest how busy we all are with life's pressing matters. But of course.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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I wonder if it was just a one-off with some kind of engraving tool I can see what you're saying - looks like that may be the case. In any event, I'm going way out in left field and say it looks a little like a p-diethylbenzene molecule... "Nummi rari mira sunt, si sumptus ferre potes." - Christophorus filius Scotiae
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Rest in Peace
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I think I can debunk the electronics theory:  My electronics drafting template  It dates me! Looks like a hand-crank or pedal device, a generator perhaps since this was the era of the "Red Scare" and Mutual Self Destruction and Bomb Shelters |
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Formerly nancyc
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I doubt that an engraving tool would cause that much damage to the rev.  I reckon it was applied with a very hard smack from a heavy hammer. Flip it 90° and it looks (very slightly) like someone running. life is a mystery to be lived not a problem to be solved
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My initial thought was a satellite I thought the same thing. What year was sputnik launched |
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Flip it 90° and it looks (very slightly) like someone running. It does look like someone running if you are looking at them from above. |
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Pillar of the Community
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Check out my counterstamped Lincoln Cent collection: http://goccf.com/t/303507 |
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I don't think it's supposed to be anyone or anything the way we normally consider.. It's a tiny Escheresque imprint is what it is.. Reminds me of what one piece out of an 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle of "Ascending and Descending" would look like -- the 'endless staircase' lithograph by M.C. Escher.. And that's it..
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Looks similar to the insignia for the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich.
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What I failed to properly verbalize previously is how as you circumvent this counterstamp following any given 'level' it seemingly changes from "top" to "bottom" if you will, or visually "incuse" to "protruding," even though no portion of the stamp is taller than the field proper..
This is the same design principle used to make the staircases appear to change from going up to going down in "Ascending and Descending" by Escher, not this counterstamp looks like any portion of said lithograph..
It's how any given surface appears to change from incuse to protruding as it's followed around is what this counterstamp is all about..
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