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In this case Phil it is the Letter R after the roman 3 (III) which indicates 1976.

Our friend Thorsten has the table listed on his site here; East German Uniform Date Codes

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Mark

There seem to be more appearing in Europe from house clearances etc as opposed to the floods of late M56/74 (sad but we as collectors benefit from these) but the price is not going down rather...

Hahaha, watch the blood pressure Ade:mad:

If I might paraphrase that great style icon Michael Winner "Calm down dear it's only a hat";)

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Seriously, I don't think it has anything to do...

Funny enough so did I,

This one is an early M56 dated;

I
06
60

I have never seen a size I before,

I know, but perhaps we shouldn't be surprised! I remember not so many years ago that the award documents etc for TR medals were something that held no interest for most collectors and I have heard...

Hmmm, I have stared at that until my eyes hurt and the more I do the more it looks like the first digit could be a mis-stuck '0' making it 05 for May?

Is it possible that yours could be 09 for...

It is so nice to see the collector getting the upper hand over the seller who is usually trying to make a killing!!

Hi Steve,

I know the marks you are talking about but the helmet stamps are different;

The top mark is the roman numeral II for a size two (there were three sizes; I, II & III) rather than 11 ie...

Yes that does seem odd to me.
I have checked the ones I have and the only double digit month mark is 10 for Oct but of course 69 doesn't seem to make sense.

The later M56/66 type were marked the...

Yep, much better! Looks like it's un-issued or "kammer-neue". The stamps usually from top to bottom indicate size (roman numeral), month (single Arabic numeral) and year (double Arabic numeral) yours...

I agree that I looks like a good M56 but I am at work viewing this on my cell phone so can't get as good a look as I would like. See post #15 above for the shell stamps you should be seeing. My only...

Thanks for that! I wonder if they are open to offers?:D:D:D

:shok_yikes: Heaven forend from such an assumption:Dcool militaria

Yep, dead right, no M42 DNA here! Uncle Addi was pretty big on aesthetics though and he knew a bit about design too:rolleyes:...

I didn't see this thread when posted so I'm a bit late responding and can have no impact on whether you bought it (did you?) but for the benefit of anyone else looking for info;

As Steve and Rene...