Scribe addresses are none so often visible in a finished frame as they are typically (then as now) marked on reference faces, as the scribing of layups is completed and just prior to pulling them apart, and as always these faces tend to be buried in sheathing and decking.
As you know, the exception tends to be arcade posts and braces and the girts between them in barns. (and in new exposed framing house frames – something clients tend to love) but as the pencil marks we saw Sat suggest, the trend was away from the awl in marking layout and the pencil (and red grease pencils) were used with increasing regularity to mark addresses.
It’s just supposition but it is not hard to believe that such marks were considered unsightly and may have been moved to unseen faces or tenon ends.
I guess it would take dismantling the right building to know for certain, and it’s a bit of a narrow window, marking seems to have only have begun changing just as scribe was falling out of dominance.
"We build too many walls and not enough bridges" - Isaac Newton
