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According to the data provided by an E-bay seller, this
is a Russian Cold War era Cipher Machine circa 1947, serial
no. 4120. Does anyone have more information on it?
Apparently it is difficult to find these machines outside
the former USSR because most of them had been recalled when
the USSR was dissolved.
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E-bay photos in this table
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The 1-0 keyboard layout suggests it might fall into the
same use category [encrypted weather reporting] as the
10-key variant of the SG-41 and the similarly laid-out
keyboard of the rare enigma presented by Arturo Quirantes
in: 'Model Z; A Numbers-Only Enigma', Cryptologia XXVIII(2),
2004.
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