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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Rastella, post: 331812, member: 6722&quot;]Yes, I see what you mean from the pictures.&nbsp; So I took a close up look at it again with some fresh eyes as well.&nbsp; I honestly think that is my flash working against me.&nbsp; When I look at it from a normal distance in person, my first thought is that it is a more recent scratch so I can only imagine how it looks to people who&#039;ve only seen it with flash photography.&nbsp; I will try to get some macros of it later.&nbsp; Looking at it through a loupe shows that it is not recent.&nbsp; Do you see those somewhat blackish marks (I&#039;m assuming from the fire)?&nbsp; I can see a couple of very miniscule bits of it embedded on top of the scratch.&nbsp; I think the scratch appears lighter in color because it was done after being removed from the fire and, therefore, doesn&#039;t have the &quot;baked&quot; look like the rest of the bottom.&nbsp; As far as dirt getting into it, the scratch really has no depth.&nbsp; Another words, there&#039;s really nothing for dirt to get into any more so than the rest of the bottom that is concaved within the outer rim ring.&nbsp; So it&#039;s no dirtier or cleaner.&nbsp; That, also, is seen through the loupe.&nbsp; I think the scratch is magnified a lot in these pictures.</p><p><br /></p><p>That having been said, the idea of the scratch and the missed leaves being related is only that .... an idea.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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