I'll corroborate Raoul's findings, in that searching completely through my collection of junk (oops, I mean treasure) only rims with the Montlery stamping have the date stamp, and they say "71".
A "confused" Mark Agree, who loves "dating" bike parts, in Southfield MI
In a message dated 11/2/2003 7:58:06 AM Eastern Standard Time,
classicrendezvous-request@bikelist.org writes:
> Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2003 09:43:59 -0600
> From: "Raoul Delmare" <Raoul.L.Delmare@worldnet.att.net>
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> If the rims have the words ,
> "MAVIC MONTLERY MADE IN FRANCE"
> stamped into them ,
> then look closely in the area around those stamped-in words .
>
> As far as I know , the only dates stamped into those rims were , 1971
> 1972 1973 .
>
> The numerals are like maybe about 3 mm in size .
>
> Raoul Delmare
> Marysville Kansas
>
>
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> From: "Chris Van Scoyk" <parisbrest@mchsi.com>
> To: <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 5:33 PM
> Subject: [CR]Mavic Tubular rims
>
>
> Where are those tiny stamped numerals anyway? I've looked over a number of
> Mavic rims, but can't find them on mine. I have some "World Hour Records",
> "World Champions" and "Monthlery" all in French of course, but no numerals
> that I can see.
> By the way, I have successfully transfered intact red label Mavic foil
> stickers to rims that had damaged ones....tedious work!
>
> Chris" failing vision" Van Scoyk
> Ankeny, IA