What does this stamp say?
 

Found this stamp on a sear bar, an eagle with some jibberish underneath. Does anybody know what this is?

Looks like a double headed eagle. I'm thinking some war time Eastern European marking, possibly Hungarian or something like that?

Olle, could this be one of the early 'long' sear bars that was shortened and then marked to indicate where/who/when??? :confused:

HZaJt18 (or at least as much of it as can be crafted into a very small stamp). Heers Zeugamt (army arms depot), Ingolstadt (city of Jngolstadt, note the J pronounced as I), depot number 18. Straight wing eagle, in use after mid-1937.

Indicates a replacement part insalled at the Zeugamt. Weird "double eagle" look is a photographic effect from photographing a very deep stamp under a strongly oblique light source.

--Dwight

I can't clearly rear the markings in this photo, but agree with Dwight that it does appear to be an Army repair depot marking. Tom

Heres an example of mine next to yours. Mine has the same stamping as yours it appears

Attachment 33686

Thanks, that solves the mystery! :thumbup: It's pretty impressive how they managed to put that much information into a tiny stamp like that.