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Originally Posted by Dwight Gruber
HZaJt18 (or at least as much of it as can be crafted into a very small stamp). Heers Zeugamt (army arms depot), Ingolstadt (city of Jngolstadt, note the J pronounced as I), depot number 18. Straight wing eagle, in use after mid-1937.
Indicates a replacement part insalled at the Zeugamt. Weird "double eagle" look is a photographic effect from photographing a very deep stamp under a strongly oblique light source.
--Dwight
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Thanks, that solves the mystery!
It's pretty impressive how they managed to put that much information into a tiny stamp like that.