Please help identify possible age of this carved Number?

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• Andreas Stötzner Posts: 770

  March 2023

  a bit of further context information would be appropriate: location? historic environment … ?

  
  

  … roughly: 17th c.
  

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• Thomas Phinney Posts: 2,748

  March 2023

  For whatever it’s worth, the appropriate terms are “lettering” and “stone carving,” or “stone-carved lettering.” 

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• James Wilson Posts: 2

  March 2023

  For further context, this is a relief carved stone (Portland probably) urn that came from an unknown London building. Stylistically it could either be early 18thC or late 19thC. What I would like to establish is whether the flat topped figure 8 is likely to more one than the other. 

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• Dan Reynolds Posts: 172

  March 2023

  I would say that, in Britain and the United States, this flat-topped 8 was more common at the end of the 19th Century than in any other period. But, it could be early 18th Century. Without more context, it is difficult to say anything further.

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