Interesting Artillery on GA.com

[Sergio Natali]

Originally Posted by John Sabato

This is an early ERFURT toggle because the crown is complete. It is my belief that they never replaced the stamp after it broke... and all late toggles have the broken edge on the top right of the crown. If you have information which disproves my hypothesis, please post it.

I think you must be right, in fact I enclose a picture of my Erfurt.

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by luger.parabellum

I think you must be right, in fact I enclose a picture of my Erfurt.

Sergio, I can't make out your chamber date - Is it 1918???

So it's the extreme right side of the crown that has the chipped/broken die imprint???

Is there any evidence of what year this occurred???

Sergio, your toggle looks orders of magnitude better than the one on GA. Doug's comment on the stamp impinging on the radius is well taken. I think someone has a nice new Erfurt stamp. But they need a finer tooth file.

Edit: The GA Erfurt stamp is not centered lengthwise either.