Hi Joe. I believe that the "." should be to the right of the "O" on this badge - not on the left. However, Paul has stated that his badge mark does not have one and it is not unusual that the periods are sometimes missing because the dies and stamps can get filled with crud.
Badgemakers had to clean the dies periodically to ensure a clean strike. I am certain that they paid far more attention to the Obverse design than they did to the reverse details. Same is true for a maker's stamp. Think of how small the ". " mark would be on a stamp...or on a reverse die. Even if the makers periodically cleaned the reverse dies or maker's stamp, it would be extremely easy to overlook and miss cleaning the small indentation that would create the relief "period". I have several badges where the periods are missing, or half missing, for this reason.
What is strange about yours is the "period" is to the LEFT of the "O". My guess is that it is not actually a period, but some excess material that ended up on that spot inadvertantly.
I think you have a rare circumstance where a "dirty stamp" caused the period to the right to be missing.....and the same dirty stamp impressed an extra piece of material (that looks like a period) to the left of the "O".
Just a "wild-ass-guess"...but it's possible.
Badgemakers had to clean the dies periodically to ensure a clean strike. I am certain that they paid far more attention to the Obverse design than they did to the reverse details. Same is true for a maker's stamp. Think of how small the ". " mark would be on a stamp...or on a reverse die. Even if the makers periodically cleaned the reverse dies or maker's stamp, it would be extremely easy to overlook and miss cleaning the small indentation that would create the relief "period". I have several badges where the periods are missing, or half missing, for this reason.
What is strange about yours is the "period" is to the LEFT of the "O". My guess is that it is not actually a period, but some excess material that ended up on that spot inadvertantly.
I think you have a rare circumstance where a "dirty stamp" caused the period to the right to be missing.....and the same dirty stamp impressed an extra piece of material (that looks like a period) to the left of the "O".
Just a "wild-ass-guess"...but it's possible.
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