While searching for Merkel's German website, I stumbled onto "Quality Level Markings.....'Q1', since the early 1960's, and 'S', until 1960; also, Level 1, & 2, used in the GDR".

SEE: http://www.shotgunworld.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=214881 (goto 'sauerfan')

ALSO, SEE: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCtezeichen_%28DDR%29
(Everyone who is fluent in German, perhaps, can shed more light on this article for the rest of us.)

:)John

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