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Thanks Rob,MM & Miller.

This becomes quite interesting now that a similar type slant text has been found,congrats Miller and thanks for showing. Your FIELD CAR text seems to be flattish as compared to others!?

Yes,the T on my specimen is definitely raised & uneven proving that the mould was hurriedly gouged with a hand tool.The A on APP is much more pronounced and more uneven though.
The question is: Were these hand made texts random or found on early bases,midway or towards the end of production?
How many types of baseplates are in existence with small & large encircled copyright C and deeper front number plate recess?
Was it a small or big run that had these bare mazac bases?
Thanks Guys
numi

Looking at the photographs again, I'm sure that Roland is correct with his hand-cut theory.
The other casting difference detailed by Numi show that the bases with "PAT. APP." in the correct font represent a completely new piece of tooling.

Idris wrote:The other casting difference detailed by Numi show that the bases with "PAT. APP." in the correct font represent a completely new piece of tooling.

I´m not shure about this, Hugh. After watching my SF Field cars the Pat App seems so be flater and smaller than the rest of the scripts on all my examples. One can clearly see this on Numis photo. Maybe the guy, which did the handjob, got fired and they did another used set with a pattern.

If they would have done a complete new base, why should there be differences in the depht of the engraved scripts? If they used a cnc engraving maschine, it wouldn´t make sense to change size and depht in the script.

Hallo Numi

I think the grille casting line and the different license plates cast interesting.

Cheers Mathias