Ken,
I see that I must produce a picture of this mysterious hole in my book and I will do that tomorrow when the light will be helpful. Whatever or whoever did it, I've never seen anything like this. It may, boringly, turn out to be something rather mundane, and from your description of how it would look if it was a bullet, it wasn't. But whatever it was, it was very sharp and intentionally done.
My husband has just attacked a Bulgarian book he didn't like with the biggest knife we've got and said that, in time, the cut would start to resemble the poor Schurmann. Unless we ask the LA dealer what he knows of its provenance, it will be left to our rather vivid imaginations. But I'll send a pic tomorrow.
Joy
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