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Author	Topic: NAM (or AMN) round stamp on space artifacts
spacemc New Member Posts: 5 From: New York, NY, USA Registered: Jul 2015	posted 10-23-2018 06:35 PM Some items I see in the Smithsonian collection have a stamp that reads ANM or NAM (depending on which way you read it left to right or top left and then right) and a number like 758. Does anyone know what these round stamps on some of these objects are? Are they museum inventory stamps? See example (top right very faint).
space1 Member Posts: 853 From: Danville, Ohio Registered: Dec 2002	posted 10-23-2018 06:45 PM These are quality control stamps from the Space Division of North American Aviation, prime contractor for the Apollo Command Service Module. I read the stamp as "NAM" for North AMerican. But I do not know for sure if that is right.
spacemc New Member Posts: 5 From: New York, NY, USA Registered: Jul 2015	posted 10-23-2018 07:23 PM Thank you appreciate the quick turnaround. This makes sense, although I would have expected North American Aviation to have inspected major structural parts but I assume they checked everything for quality control including small clamps, tubes, netting etc.

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