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by evanb 1356 days ago
This is presumably a (physical) space-saving decision. The stop looks like it's right next to the 1. But dialing a digit requires moving the dial. So how can you dial 1 if the stop is adjacent and immovable? It looks like the answer for this small dial is that the stop moves only ~one tenth of a turn.

Hopefully then it does have a real physical stop---otherwise it'd be quite hard to dial correctly!