Unusual EK maker?

[ynot]

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It looks like L V and there are 2 more stamps, one of them could be S. Is it a rare maker?

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I’m sorry about the crappy pic of the ring but I couldn’t get it any better.<o></o>

Any comments are appreciated.

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Cheers

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Tony

[ynot]

Cross

[ynot]

Close up

[ynot]

Close up, obverse.

[Dave-B]

Tony mate,I know I have seen it before but that is one crisp EK2!


Dave

[Chris Wainwrigh]

Nice cross The makers L, V and LV are listed as unknown makers on Tony and Kaisers EK list. Regards Chris

[Brian S]

Early crisp stike, ekii's may be common but these crispy ones are great.

[ynot]

Hello Brian,

An early strike, how can you tell?

Cheers

Tony

[Brian S]

Well I can't for sure and there are plenty of folks here who will enforce the idea that I'm dumb as a post, but, it's a clean crisp EKII and as many of these as were pressed, the dies wore down. Yours shows a great deal of details which to me, again dumb as a post, indicates an early cross from that particular die. Might be a 1918 cross but to me, an early die strike. My grandfather's first EKI was very thin and more crude in the numerals than yours. So I wouldn't say this is an early 1914, just an early die strike.