This could be explained if the black is not paint, but anodizing. Then it
would be easy to imagine that someone could use a solvent which would
remove the paint but leave the anodizing intact.
Physical abrasion/ wear, would affect both paint and anodizing.
Giles
Frank van Lindert wrote:
> Since then I have always thought that the engraving of the lettering took
> place after the black paint had been applied. Am I wrong? It seems a bit
> odd that you can 'erase' the orange foot-scale with the black paint
> remaining in place, when ordinary wear takes away both paint layers at
> the same time...
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