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Originally Posted by kvflyer
That is quite normal. Capacitor manufacturers would often use a can that was already stamped and stuff whatever they needed into it when they knew they were going to put a cardboard sleeve around it. I have seen it several times.
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I'll second this. And it wasn't just budget manufacturers or short runs like training kits that they ended up in, either. Have seen them as OEM parts in RCA and DuMont sets, at least. Real obvious stuff like a 4 section cap that is stamped for a single section cap on the can itself.
Just the cap manufacturer "reclaiming" perfectly usable scrap from a previous production run, and using it where it presumably wouldn't be noticed.