By some mysterious means I obtained the following pics of a reputedly extinct dinosaur. Any help in identifying approximate date of manufacture for curiosity's sake would be appreciated.

IIRC, the only ones I saw was in the late 60's.

the time frame I was guessing. No telling when they were actually purchased or by what means (not sure when everything went to Army Store only). An ex-competition shooter had them in his stash, but that's all I know.

I would think cardboard. Maybe styrofoam.

German ammo of any vintage. Maybe I'll get a chance to contact the original purchaser and get more info.

with styro. Could be someone upgraded the internals when it was reloaded? Did they use silver colored primers in factory ammo?

Gecko, or something like that... Geco (had to go look). The story is that the original purchaser was a competitor but not a reloader. It's NOS for all intents and purposes.

Before reunification it would have been marked "West Germany". I bought a lot of Geco 9mm in AK that had the same logo on it, and the same kind of plastic tray. Old looking graphics aside, early 90's would be my guess. Ugh, that is still over 20 years ago.

what I know of the original purchaser so far and the changes/upheavals in the national shooting scene in the early/mid 90's.

Which is the French designation of the Federal Rupublic of Germany, which was the official designation of West Germany, now just Germany. The East was of course the "Democratic" Republic of Germany.

Dynamit Nobel is the parent company.

http://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog/product_info.php/cPath/656_668/products_id/88440/GEC...

http://www.waffenboerse.ch/geco-38-special-wadcutter-9-6g.html

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