Gentleman
a lot of number and letter stamps back then were hand cut/made by the tool and die makers and in a hand made stamp you would have thick and thin areas of the character. You see these type characters on some badges where they are thick and thin parts of the character C.E.Juncker Berlin ( Juncker made pilots badges)their name logo which was stamped in the rear of the badge, if looked at very close had thick and thin areas in their characters.
The one for the 1 does look kind of strange as most a their 1's had the little line at the top but not always the serif at the bottom. Just some things to consider.
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mike
............... That stroke that looks like part of an exclamation mark means something and it is NOT a poor strike of a Roman numeral "I". .................
Dave's observation of the exclamation mark appearance (wide to narrow) of the number "1" triggered a memory of the same type of marking seen in another GDC discussion from quite a while back. Not that I am saying that the two are related - just that they physically IMO might have been done the same way (ie: the same type of tool). FP
