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The following headstamps have turned up on 9mm Para cartridges.

Has anyone seen actual specimens of these headstamps???

Can anyone identify these headstamps???

Any help appreciated!!!

Iran - Factory unknown

Characters from 3to 6
O'clock are 9MM (in
Farsi-i.e. Iranian).

Character at 8 O'Clock is a
Farsi D.

Characters from 9 to 12
O'Clock are two different
versions of the letter S.

The heart shape character
at 2 O'Clock is the number 5
in Farsi so the cartridge
must be from Iran

Probably Syria for Iran

A very similar headstamp
(7.62x39 7 2002 7) on
7.62x39mm cartridges has
a neck crimp that appears
to be unique to Syria. the
7.62x39mm cartridges.

Known from three fired
cases found mixed with 700
rds of fired Olympic Arms
brass headstamped E.D.P.
9X19. Now this headstamp
has shown up in Iraq with
both "05" and "07" dates on
the bottom. Characteristics
of the cartridge imply
Romanian manufacturer,
perhaps for Iran.

This headstamp is a
product of Argulia in Mexico
and occurs on Proof
cartridges made for
gunmakers in Eiber, Spain.
Similar headstamps,
including the NATO mark at
the top also occur on 380,
38 Special and 45 ACP.

Found in Iraq

Examination of the cartridge
and the box clearly indicates
that this is not Czech
production by S&B, inspite
of the box label. The
characteristics of the
cartridge strongly imply
Romanian production

Found in Finland in the
1970s

CN color, magnetic RN
bullet and a Belgian style
domed primer

Overall weight is 182gr.

Probably a 9mm Glisenti
load.

Cuponickel (CN) color
truncated bullet with the
typical Glisenti ogive.

Overall weight is 186gr

Perhaps a Spanish
post-WWII production for
use in Glisenti pistols when
Italian ammunition was
unavailable???

Loaded with a black
German mE bullet, just like
other Belgium cases (like
AEP) that were loaded in
Belgium by the Germans at
the beginning of the War.

Overall weight is 156gr.

Probably an FN contract
load for somebody
BUT WHO????.

Non-magnetic Guilding-
Metal Round-nose bullet.

188 gr overall weight
implies a 124gr bullet.

No other data available

Any idea who code 621 is??

I picked up these Pressure Test cartridges at the recent ECRA meeting
in Switzerland, but I have lost my note on them. All have different
headstamps and have two pressure test holes (of different sizes!!!) in
the case, and then not quite across from these is a hole drilled through
the case and into the bullet. All have a dark green strip across the case
head. Can anyone tell me what these are???

This is another load I picked up at the recent ECRA meeting in
Switzerland, and again I have lost my note on them. All have different
headstamps All have a black strip across the case head. In addition
they have four distinctive punctures in the bullet, two relatively close
together on one side and two on the other. It looks like some kind of
gripping tool was used to pull the bullet. Can anyone tell me what
these are???