Magazine Project Pt3. Variations, errors, unreport

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   In this section I am asking the membership to report any miss stamped, errors, or a font variation that may not have been reported. If in doubt, post it.
A wise man once said "It is better to look at it, then to look for it"

The first one is rather common. The M.S. Little company code was "L" and they made magazines for IBM, Inland, Standard products, and Underwood. 
It would seem whomever was stamping the magazine did not pay much attention as as there are many low stamping, I have even seen one off the bottom of the magazine

There are a few reported size variations of the fonts, Some may be light vs heavy stamping where the die goes deeper. I am not concerned about these, but some have a more noticeable font size due to a different die. One reported and not seen is the UN with serifs being larger. The small font is common, but if you put them next to each  other it may become more obvious.

Here is one you probably saw but did not realize there were two font sizes

Font spacing is also of interest. Some are closer, others farther apart.

Now if you look at the above you will see the fonts are different shapes on both letters.
Sometimes they are the same spacing but have different font shapes. 

sorry for the small picture, it is very old submission of poor quality.
To me it looks like the one on the right the "Ss" does not curve at the ends. The 4 may be open top.

If you are reporting, sharing , or posting please include the whole magazine and picture of the bottom plate. 

Keep your mags out, as there are more to follow later

Happy Hunting!

Link to Part 1, Do they exist
Link to part 2, Autoyre

Edited by New2brass - Mar 23 2025 at 10:49am