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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 8197101, member: 27832&quot;]If this were a partial-collar strike, we wouldn&#039;t see reeds on both sides of the discontinuity.</p><p><br /></p><p>If this were jewelry/mount damage, I&#039;d expect to see vertical striations on the reeds that were forced into the holder. I don&#039;t. If it were a clamping holder, I wouldn&#039;t expect to see such a sharp edge between top and bottom. It looks like a cut, not a stamp.</p><p><br /></p><p>Defective collar reeding? I dunno -- I don&#039;t know the details of how reeded collars are made, but it&#039;s hard to imagine a process that would produce this kind of continuity.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cracked collar? I <i>guess</i> a collar could crack longitudinally like this, but it seems <i>really</i> unlikely. But, see above; I just don&#039;t know.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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