Interesting marking
 

Have you ever seen an "eagle" like this one?


Has an eagle 6 below, while the marking above, I have never seen and it isn't a misstrike, as both grips carry the same marking.

http://forum.lugerforum.com/lfupload...638b_copy1.jpg

http://forum.lugerforum.com/lfupload/img_1637.jpg

Grip marking
 

Ed,

I have a DWM 1913 with a replacement panel that has a " H " like yours, but has a C/G ( like an Erfurt ) on it. Could these be field replcement panels?

Mike:confused:

Ed,

The only Eagles that I could find in Costanzo's that ressemble it are all Simson rework proofs. None look exactly like that, but some are close and have a T P mark with them. Maybe a previously unidentified Simson proof.

Ron

Looks like a 'winged dog bone" eagle...:) :) :)

Hey Pete,

Maybe it's a Femur-eagle or "Femurgle ?"

Ed,

What is the gun it is from? What markings?

The grip eagles look like a variation of one of the eagles associated with TP marks in Costanzo (there is one most like it, without TP, on p.88, #59). I do not credit the Simson connection with any of these eagles, and would hazard a WAG that in this case it portends replacement grips manufactured by Simson (inspected by e/6), and installed and proofed by the Berlin Technische Polizeischul armory. I'd also guess that the H is mostly likely a worker's mark, along with the Ns and the other odd figures.

--Dwight.

The "H" & "O" inspectors marks and the #12 serial look OK to me, but the Weimar eagle and Simson E/6 look a bit too fresh. I suspose that they could have been added by a rework facility, but I would expect these marking to be on the pistol, not just on the grips. Probably spurious. Perhaps the forger wanted to try out the dies before appling them to a metal surface. TH