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**MAC702** · 04-28-2025 09:34 PM

Originally Posted by Flying10uk

Perhaps it's time to get your eyesight tested.

If it is 1962 it certainly doesn't look like it.

Apparently this was all hashed out six pages ago, and I did not intend to start it all over again, but the left side is clearly a straight edge and the top right has the end of the 6 exactly opposite where the 2 starts in the top left. It's clearly a 6. I can't even see the 8 anymore after noticing those.

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**Flying10uk** · 04-29-2025 05:15 AM

Originally Posted by MAC702

but the left side is clearly a straight edge and the top right has the end of the 6 exactly opposite where the 2 starts in the top left. It's clearly a 6. I can't even see the 8 anymore after noticing those.

Clearly it is not and clearly it appears to be an 8. However it is a poor quality ink marking that has clearly been "smudged" during application.

Nothing is impossible and "spare parts/components" are often manufactured for a product that has gone out of production but remains in use.

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M1

helmet shell in unissued condition is clearly marked 1952, with no "smudging", and so is a nice early example.