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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BRandM, post: 1947321, member: 22729&quot;][ATTACH=full]339315[/ATTACH]</p><p>The counterstamps on this Large Cent are really sharply struck, more so than on many others in my collection. Brunk lists this stamp but it&#039;s not attributed to anyone. If you wanted to check out the list of patents issued in May, 1854 you&#039;d probably find loads of them. That makes this counterstamp nearly impossible to attribute. One clue though is the Eagle which was generally meant to mean &quot;American Made&quot; It was commonly used by gunsmiths and lock makers among others, but that&#039;s not much help in finding the issuer. A bit of a difference though is that the eagle is perched on what looks like a ball and isn&#039;t holding arrows or olive branches in its talons. Might help in an attribution but probably not enough.</p><p>Anyway, I bought the piece because I really liked the look of it and not that I thought I could find the issuer. Thanks for looking.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bruce[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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