m84 serial number. real or fake???

[andy_ita]

hi guys
please look at this m84 serial number and tell me what do u think
thanks

andy

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/909/RbEZPN.jpg (https://imageshack.com/i/p9RbEZPNj)
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/903/hEWVhc.jpg (https://imageshack.com/i/p3hEWVhcj)
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/912/tKAYOG.jpg (https://imageshack.com/i/pctKAYOGj)

[Tom in N.J.]

Andy, to me it looks like a Libby-Owens-Ford serial number on a Leupold-Stephens data plate.. I see no part number on the tube at 3:00 0'clock so it is not a L-S scope.

[andy_ita]

yes you are right.
Its a common thing to find a L-s plate on a L-o-f scope or viceversa??

[Tom in N.J.]

I have no idea if such a thing is common. I never saw one before... SARCO had a number of original blank L-O-F data plates years ago. I don't know if they had any L-S ones.

[Smf834]

i thought there should be a box surrounding the serial numbers?