“Hm, the letter in 1953 looks like a small L, like l953. Not sure why anybody would type an l instead of a 1 there… “
An earlier post covered this - a member here who worked with typewriters for 30 years said that early typewriters didn’t have an 1 or 0, so they were typed l and O.
Maybe this was one of the newer typewriters and the typist reverted to the older typing system for a moment.
Maybe this was one of the newer typewriters and the typist reverted to the older typing system for a moment.Yes, that makes sense, actually. If this is a forgery, the forger must have known and done this deliberately. Quite remarkable…I used to play around a lot with old typewriters when I was a kid, but this trick wouldn’t have occurred to me.