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the date 1961 has been altered, the 1 is not the same inking device as the rest of the number. It appears to have been hand written

22 posted on 04/27/2011 10:28:47 AM PDT by stockpirate (If they vote for socialism, support socialists, they're socialists duh....Ech bin ein Paliner)

I noticed the altered 1961 on the short form doc I saw awhile back.

39 posted on 04/27/2011 10:46:22 AM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)

the date 1961 has been altered, the 1 is not the same inking device as the rest of the number. It appears to have been hand written

It's plausible to me that the stamp only had the first three digits of the year and the last digit had to be written in. It would be a way to make the stamp last longer. It had rotating sections for the month, the two digits of the day and for the year. So they could get one for the 1960's (1960-1969), or they could get one for the 20th century or some period longer than 10 years (195-199). Just a thought.

50 posted on 04/27/2011 11:03:46 AM PDT by Tatze (I reject your reality and substitute my own!)

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