Thanks for the reply Stig.
It seems we agree on the G.III E2.That said what I could see of the blurred numeral looked very like the 2 that can be seen. But as you're aware 2298 falls in the middle of a series of G.IV.
Apologies for the V16 error. 'Unsticky' fingers on my part. I meant of course V116. Baed on David Méchin's artwork on Albin Denis at
http://albindenis.free.fr/Site_escad...adrille116.htm which is not to say that you're incorrect when seeing the first two digits as 26. Could be.
Regards,
Clint