Originally Posted by
Steven Tribe
...The engraving doesn't look 100% as though it was done by an experienced, habitual craftsman. The spacing of the numbers isn't good and you can see the faint lines which have been drawn in to keep the letters straight. The two "O"s in LONDON are smaller the rest of the letters.
Many dealers (pharmacists, opticians or photographic items) give an address in the engraving. If it is not a dealer lens, then the owner has perhaps given his plain no-name RR an embellishment! Pretty good engraving too. The impossible serial number indicates he had a touch of humour. Owner engraved lenses are as rare as forgeries.
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