Last call on this for me & I concur with 2-piper in what he has posted but then again I agree with tinker that it's a mute point. But the London stamps from the period that I have seen form a set of brackets and for some reason the left "1" looks to be inverted with respect to and facing the right "1". It could just be a worn die, they guy was just making 8(hours-possibly 10) and wouldn't have dreamed that 120+ years from then a group of folk would be arguing whether it was an "11" or not. But as 2-piper posted it holds the typical position for the bore plug gauge that passed. If you have the software, pull the image into a view and zoom in and you can see the tip of the "1" beside a pit.
400 Nitro Express: no worries on the difference of opinion as that's what makes the world go round. But I am going to pull a revdocdrew and start a photo folder of London marks for the period(1870-1877).
Kind Regards,
Raimey
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