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  "publisher": "Bend Rubber Stamp & Printing",
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  "url": "https://bendstampandprinting.com/",
  "accessedOn": "2026-09-11",
  "notes": "Current website and original logo image visually inspected. The 2018/06 asset directory is an upload location, not an established creation date.",
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      "Bend Rubber Stamp & Printing places the narrow, rounded Bend letters in a tilted circle, with a band of color behind them. The device forms the first word of the company’s identity.",
      "Its lettering provides another comparison for Bend Brew Wear, Visit Bend and the Bend Store. The printer’s website describes a business history reaching back to 1970; that does not date this logo. A preserved printing block, old letterhead or designer’s file could help connect its earlier forms."
    ],
    "limitations": [
      "The maker, design date and exact input artwork have not been established.",
      "The business’s stated founding year does not date the drawing."
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    "origin": "Current business website; authorship and introduction date unknown.",
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        "name": "The Downtown file",
        "diagnostic": "The same narrow letters and notched E as the bureau roundel, with a capital N."
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      "construction": "The notched construction",
      "confidence": "medium",
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      "readAtBasis": "the letters alone, at this drawing's own letter cut",
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          "label": "Bend Shevlin Pine, June 1917",
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      "Its lettering provides another comparison for Bend Brew Wear, Visit Bend and the Bend Store. The printer’s website describes a business history reaching back to 1970; that does not date this logo. A preserved printing block, old letterhead or designer’s file could help connect its earlier forms."
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