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The shell you are showing is the 8,8 cm Sprgr L/4,5 (Kz). It is the type with the screwed-in base plate. The stamps are somewhat difficult to read. 41 kam 50 a?. These are the production stamps of the shell body. Year of manufacturing 1941; kam (= Hasag Eisen-und Metallwerke GmbH, Werk Skarzysko-Kamienna); Lot 50, series a?.
FES = Sintered Iron driving bands.
13 Sk 5.44. These are filling stamps. 13 = code for the explosive filler = amatol 60/40; Sk is the code for the filling station; 5.44 = month and year of filling.
The early shells with the screwed-in base plate have a HE charge in a cardboard container which was inserted thru the base of the shell body. Later on the explosive was poured in, these shells were marked with a + in black paint on the ogive indicating that the screwed-in base plate was sealed with magnesia-paste.
I think your shell is of the poured-in type, because the cardbord containers were always filled with pressed TNT which had the explosive filler code 1.
Below drawings of the two different shell types with the screwed-in base plate.
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