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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bakersgma, post: 107232, member: 59&quot;]Good question, Fig, for which I have no &quot;answer&quot; other than, there was no regulation of said markings. Totally up to the maker and it would not surprise me to see anomalies. Changes over the &quot;life&quot; of a pattern would be a reasonable explanation.</p><p><br /></p><p>I just checked in my 2 &quot;miscellaneous&quot; chests (I&#039;m up to 5 total now <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/eek.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" /> but that doesn&#039;t count the many <b>many</b> boxes upstairs that I can&#039;t get to right now.) There aren&#039;t many examples from the same period down here and all of those few had the &quot;number&quot; in the same orientation to the handle direction as the maker&#039;s stamp. I don&#039;t think it means anything to have the numbers the other way.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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