1918 over 1917

[mcook]

Anybody seen anything like this before, or know why the '8' would have been stamped over the '7'?.

malcolm

[JB White]

It was mismarked in the morning on the first day of the new year. Hangover ya know! ;)

That is odd. Perhaps it was a rejected receiver that was corrected and put back on the line?

[Lngstrt]

It was mismarked in the morning on the first day of the new year. Hangover ya know! ;)

That is odd. Perhaps it was a rejected receiver that was corrected and put back on the line?

Regardless of the truth, which you'll likely never know, I'd be telling the 1/1/18 story anyway! :rolleyes:

(hey ... where's my avatar?)

[mcook]

That 1/1/18 line of reasoning is about the only rational explanation I can come up with. Perhaps BSA had some already stamped 1917 receivers sitting in the bin, and had not used them prior to the end of December.

malcolm

[Lngstrt]

As far as I know, the date has nothing to do with the date of assembly. While receivers were being made and sent down the line there could be a delay before assembly. So, receivers made on Monday December 31, 1917 would not really have been re-dated on Tuesday 1/1/18.
Bureaucracy being what it is though, I can 'see' a worker getting reprimanded for using the date from 'yesterday'. "Correct that mistake Mr Smythe!" "Yessir, Mr Prosser, Sir!"
:eek:

[John Sukey]

Or the reciever was marked in the afternoon after a visit to the pub at lunchtimne;)