Very Nice Pat!
The bump is most likely a remnant of the layout marks used to make sure the transfers were in the right spots on the plate. And the gap is from the platemaker overdoing erasing the mark.
The repair looks like it might be exactly that, someone realized there was a gap and drew it in by hand. Very easy on metal plates and not all that tough on a stone either.
There's a few other tiny things. The elbow nearest the left border has two marks to make the creases in the uniform, and on only the one with the worse corners in the last pic or two the longer mark goes all the way across the elbow. If it's factory, it may go with a particular back. One of those really small differences that to me indicate multiple printings with minor art changes in between.
Steve B
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