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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 336562, member: 112"]Not trying to be cryptic at all. In my post I paraphrased, or thought I did, what the two ANA standards say for XF40 and XF45. You quoted XF40 verbatim - "EF-40: Feathers are well defined and Liberty is bold. Wear shows on hair above ear, curl to right of ribbon and ribbon end. Most of the diamond design shows plainly" XF45 - Wear shows on hair above ear and curl to right of ribbon and on ribbon end. The diamond design and LIBERTY are very plain. High points of the leaves and bow are lightly worn. Traces of mint luster still show. Now I thought that my comment - "ANA standards require the diamonds be visible or very plain for an XF and above grade." - was a reasonable paraphrase for the two sentences I underlined above. Now perhaps I misunderstood your following comment - "The key word is most." - but I thought you were disagreeing with me. And that was why I posted what I did after your post. If you read just the XF40 standard I suppose there are two different ways that the word "most" could be interpretted. It could mean that one of the diamonds could be missing. But if you read the standard for the XF45 grade as well, it clarifies it IMO to mean that one of the diamonds could be partially faint, but not missing.[/QUOTE]