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At the bottom of my list I include a caveat:
"60+ years later, the only way to be sure that a hub was made by FB is to take the hubs apart and take very accurate measurements.
If everything is the same except for the engraving then there's a very good chance that they were made by F.B."
Eventually I will take a few accurate F.B hub measurements and post them ... that way, others can measure against those numbers.
And, you are probably right when you hinted that Gnutti made similar hubs and may have made OEM's as well.
I have a Gnutti branded 3-piece hubs and the measurements clearly differ from F.B. Will eventually post those measurements as well.
Thanks for the heads-up.