YUGOSLAVIA
Also known as the NE44a or
the M59 according to one authority,
Bruno Murgia, as featured on Michele
Tagliavini's website.
The '44' does not relate to year
of design or manufacture. Produced
after the Second World War, these were
standard Yugoslav issue
until the breakup of the state
The NE44b (aka M59/85) has slightly
different fixings (triangular
rather than rectangular) for the liner-band-to-shell,
and may (it
is hard to tell from photographs alone)
have a slightly different
contour to the rim.
Bruno tells me that the NE44b has
less outward flare to the lower
edges of the shell.
This example has a patch of dried mud inside, with some suspicious streaks, and as it was a field pickup it might have more sinister contents. It hasn't been cleaned. Maybe it ought to be.