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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1653619, member: 66&quot;]You can&#039;t draw a straight line across the basses of the ED because the bases of those two letters are at an angle to each other.&nbsp; the best you could do would be to draw a line from the left most point of the left serif of the E the right most point on the base of the D.&nbsp; That line is almost vertical north and south.&nbsp; Trying to do the same thing on the off-center strike is difficult because those two points are not present.&nbsp; they have been wiped out by the field of the second strike.&nbsp; I do agree that if they were present they would be tipped to the right somewhat.</p><p><br /></p><p>The line below the bases of CENT is even more impossible.&nbsp; On the second strike that line does run east and west, but it is impossible to&nbsp; draw that line on the off-center strike as the only part of CENT that is visible is the top three quarters of the C.&nbsp; But examination of that C will tell you that if you could draw that line it would not run east and west, the C is rotated somewhere between five and ten degrees clockwise.&nbsp; Look at the shape of the inside of the C.&nbsp; On the second strike the back of the inside is fairly flat and is vertical straight up and down.&nbsp; On the off-center strike it isnot vertical but is tipped about between five and ten degrees to the right of vertical.&nbsp; This fits well with the off vertical line across the bases of the ED.</p><p><br /></p><p>What I used were straight lines along the inside of the upright of the E, the outside of the upright of the D and across the points of the two leaves of the cluster below the T in UNITED (And the corresponding leaves in the cluster of the off-center strike.&nbsp; All three of these lines intersect the C at the same points in both the off-center strike and the second strike.&nbsp; That tells me the C has the same orientation to the ED on both strikes, there is no third strike.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only way to be really sure would be to do an overlay and see how things match up.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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