Aaron,
Thanks for the new picture, a good confirmation of exactly the style of eagle. Tom has already noted that this is a much earlier eagle than the e/Mg stamps #143-146 and #162-63 examples in Costanzo.
Howard,
I'm back to my own digs, my own computer, and my library. To follow on a bit, I would start with Costanzo and then query the people who are doing current research on the topics--Ron Smith for Reichswehr unit information (and Klaus Schad, if he were still participating), and Ranger-CPT for Heers Zeugamt information. I'm glad to see that they have both responded.
Having praised Costanzo for his documentary acumen, it must be pointed out that his representations of HZa markings (found generally between #84-#99) fall short of the mark. Many of the letters are portrayed as capitalized in places they are not, and some letters are mis-identified--#89 is a good example: HZAJL18 for the stamping we recognize as HZaJt18. It should be noted that some of these HZa stamps are very difficult to read, and the Jt (Jingolstadt [Ingolstadt]) is easily misinterpreted as JL.
Having noted this discrepancy today for the first time, I will now look more closely and confirm with other sources whenever I see all caps in Costanzo's marking representations.
Ranger-CPT,
On markings #86 and #99 Costanzo notes that the terminal letter/number combination representations are unknown.
--Dwight
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