Where the guitar players? ...at?

Good question to which I don't know the answer. Taking a page from the coin collectors, "mistakes" get really big bucks. An example would be the 3-legged version of the "Buffalo" nickel.

It would require being able to prove that the P didn't simply fall off somewhere along the way.
That`s the thing, evidently they cleared over the decals back then, so they let it run through the rest of the finish process. Very strange indeed.