The engraving doesn't look quite right, but the engraving varied a lot on the 99DE's. We know the DE's were engraved by a number of different people. German definitely and possibly Japanese. The photos aren't very good which hinders an evaluation. The serial # falls in the range of the early production of the DE's and PE's.
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