A spare parts question
 

How do you tell what manufacture made a certain part? Through my travels in Germany I am starting to get a spare parts collection going. Other than looking at the font style on the parts is there any way to tell the difference between say a DWM side plate and one made by Kreighoff or Erfurt?

As my parts collection progresses, I may try to make a Frankenstein Luger where no number matches another. :eek:

Yes, but I have mastered it. You have to have an eye for that sort of thing.


When a person like Ron or Dwight shows me side-by-side pictures, then I see the differences, but most of the time, it just eludes me.

I will be in the Benelux area and also Germany 13-27 June / with my wife and visiting old friends (I lived there for 7 yrs while in the army).


Ed

My eyes are not trained enough to spot the manufacture.. But if some of the parts have 42 stamped on the correct location, it could be a Mauser spare part.