Quote: A12 your example does not appear hand stamped to me, it looks more like the worker just neglected to roll the first two digits into the proper final position which made them slightly higher than the rest.
Scott, I agree and really never said that it was hand stamped just pointing out the mis-alignment of the characters. You can see at the lower left corner of the "1" where it has the mark from the stamp base corner, kind of like a L shape where it was rolled too far to the right.
