<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: L78steve</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Kurt S</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I've never seen a misstamped axle that I can recall. </div></div>
He's one for you Kurt.
I have the POP to back it up.

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Both images look like the standard method of correcting a miss stamp at the factory.
First obliterate the previous mark and then correct. I have seen engine blocks where the stamping was corrected in this way. Not pretty but that is the way it was.
Thanks for posting.