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Most of them are hust inspection markings Josh, some are known, I will try to find you the link I had once I get home tonight. The little quarter moon stamp is of course the Turk marking.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt