I thought it was going to be straightforward, just take the date of the strike, look back in the Steel Impression Book to see when the handstamp was proofed before that date and Bob's your uncle !
Nope.
Even though some of the proofs in the SIB are marked as "recut", it does not appear that this means that the previous handstamp has been recut or made into the new one - so one has to compare a strike with all the previous handstamps to see which one it most closely matches, which is obviously a somewhat subjective process.
Here is a fairly clear example showing that one cannot just assume the previously proofed handstamp has been used.
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