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I'm pretty sure that etching was this one:

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It's a bit hard to make out (I nabbed it from an auction archive site), but you can sort of see that it's a sideways portrait of Washington....

I agree, it looks like a crest of some kind with writing around it, but it's not legible to me.

You might take a piece of 1000 or 2000 grit sandpaper, wrap it around a broom handle and use that to...

They continued producing meaty wedges well after 1900, actually.

However, those large washers on the scales are a slightly better indicator. Unfortunately, the whole span from about 1850 to 1880...