This was a very interesting photo
http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...tem=6158044722
Interestingly there is a photo on Luftwaffe Camouflage and Markings which I received today very similar to the above.(Still reading!!)
Classed as an experimental scheme.
On Page 52 it shows a Bf109E-1 of JG53 with a > marking. It was photographed in Wiesbaden in September 1939 and the colours were RLM70, 71 and 02, very angular with 65 underside.
Proved too time consuming and complex.
The ebay photo is the same colours and but different pattern. Also coded |>. Very interesting though as I said before.
regards
Mark