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CQB27

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Its pretty easy to pick out East German mags based on spine welds.
Welds on the front lug can differentiate Hungarians, Polish, Egyptian, Bulgarian, and Russian/Romanian.
Rib type is really helpful too. Stamps are the easiest way to figure out origin.
Nothing is written in stone when it comes to welds alone......just my experience.
 

Miles

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Its pretty easy to pick out East German mags based on spine welds.
Welds on the front lug can differentiate Hungarians, Polish, Egyptian, Bulgarian, and Russian/Romanian.
Rib type is really helpful too. Stamps are the easiest way to figure out origin.
Bulgarian, Russian and Romanian have very similar welds. That's the one that always gives me problems. Polish and Hungarian welds are similar, but rib and floorplate keeper tell them apart.
IIRC Hungarians only made Gen1, and Poles made 1 and 2.
Bulgarian Y rib is easy, but all of the Y ribs I have also have stamps, either ((25)) or ((E)).
 
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Jake

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Here are a few of my Romy's(just grabbed a few off the top of the stack for pics) and they all have different stamps on them. No rhyme or reason it appears as to why/where they were put there as far as I can tell? I'm sure there probably is but...

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3x

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Bulgarian, Russian and Romanian have very similar welds. That's the one that always gives me problems. Polish and Hungarian welds are similar, but rib and floorplate keeper tell them apart.
The Bulgarian front lug welds are more of a small, well defined circle than the Russian or Romanian lug welds, which are pretty globby by comparison. Usually the only way I can distinguish Russian and Romanian is by the stamps.