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Cartridge Identification

I'd say your guess is correct, and thanks for taking the hit for the greater education of all those who find strange cartridges on their newly won old turntables.

The DS-ST102 is the stylus model number for the Hitachi DMC-2200 cartridge. Interestingly, when you use that as an image search term, you're right back with both green and blue styli. Madness.
 
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And that Astatic is most likely sourced from none other than Nagatron/Nagaoka who made some of the Sanyo cartridges. I think we've got an answer.
 
Kent, which other Nagaoka-built cartridges were moving-magnet? [UPDATE: the older Jewel Tone models (with JT prefixes), including the JT-555 carbon-fiber cantilever model, were mostly moving-magnet. I have the feeling Nagaoka could do it any way the client wanted. Random tidbit: Those Victor bodies above were part of an early CD-4 cartridge called the 4MD-10X]
 
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