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Posted: **Fri Feb 06, 2009 11:52 am**

Good evening from Bavaria!
Is the background colour of the ID-tag(MC xxx) behind the passenger seat ( M 38 ) aluminium-,white- or black coloured?
I am restoring the MC 50500 (DOD?) and I have found 3 possibilties of colour.
This is an addition anwer of the message "patent plate".
Thank you for answering!

Uwe

Posted: **Fri Feb 06, 2009 10:01 pm**

Hello Uwe,

I haven't been able to narrow this down enough yet. Here are some samples yo can view:

MC62206 This one looks to have had a black background.

MC58577 looksto have been originally white background.

MC64976 Looks like originally black back ground.

Posted: **Sat Feb 07, 2009 8:40 am**

51898 has a white background.

Wes I know you are looking for photos of original plates to assist in compiling this information.
However, to date I have not been able to take a picture that can truely show the colors. I have some more work to go in carefully removing a layer of OD to clearly show the background.

Tom

Posted: **Mon Feb 09, 2009 5:05 am**

My '52 M38 has a white background tag.

Jorge

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ID-tag of M 38 behind the passenger seat

ID-tag of M 38 behind the passenger seat

patent plate