Unusual side panel stamp (test)
 

My 1937 DWM shooter has this stamping on the left side panel, any idea as to what it is? I can't find it in any of my references. This is also a test to try to upload the photo and I have no idea what will happen, hopefully you will be taken to my album where you can click on the jpeg to enlarge it.http://a7.cpimg.com/image/75/87/1047...-028001E0-.jpg

Well, that didn't work lets try this
http://members14.clubphoto.com/herb5...ner-e34a.phtml

This had come up earlier in the question of additional indents for the safety selector positions. I believe the consensus was that these are hardness test marks, done by the factory to test the density of the steel.

RK

Could be, but on most Lugers that I have seen the hardness (Rockwell) tests were just a single dot . somewhere on the metal. At first I thought that the marks might be Farsi, but not knowing that language I don't know. Why do I keep getting Lugers with weird marks? Price I guess.

Herb,

I only have 2 proof marks book and could not find a match...

I have two guesses :

1. A braile symbol... [img]wink.gif[/img]

Okay, seriously...

2. Maybe an amourer's or gunsmith's mark...??? <img src="graemlins/icon501.gif" border="0" alt="[icon501]" />