Rear Conncecting Pin - Again

Patrick · 05-08-2001, 03:20 AM

Rick, I suppose it does mean that. The pins were originally unnumbered but were retro-stamped some time after 1932 as they were still state property. The Reichswehr (later called the Wehrmacht) the postal service, customs, border guards and even the railway service were all officially part of the armed forces and would have been issued with numbered Lugers. BUT officers (and high ranking civil servants) would have had to purchase their own hand guns - and these would not have numbered rear toggle pins. Patrick

05-08-2001, 03:20 AM	#39
Patrick User Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 241 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: My DWM 1916/1920 Rick, I suppose it does mean that. The pins were originally unnumbered but were retro-stamped some time after 1932 as they were still state property. The Reichswehr (later called the Wehrmacht) the postal service, customs, border guards and even the railway service were all officially part of the armed forces and would have been issued with numbered Lugers. BUT officers (and high ranking civil servants) would have had to purchase their own hand guns - and these would not have numbered rear toggle pins. Patrick