Has Anyone Started A Snail Drum Serial Numbers Record?
 

I will post my two if there is interest!! Eric

I got one with alls in pictures .,
Thinking your's where inside ...

A start~
 

Old model #400271, New model #17732~

Eric, if I'm not mistaken, these serial numbers are switched around! :)

Thank You Dave
 

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Whats the theory that in order to be correct all the numbers should add up to one magic number??

Fake drums made in Eastern-Europe have a serial number of which the individual numbers add up to 17.

Snail. :evilgrin:

I know, it was too late to change!

No, it isn't!:eek:

Just go to "edit", then "go advanced", then you can edit the subject/title!:thumbup:

My Hero~~~

Patrice, I opened your attachment above and its full of good stuff! The finest collection I have Seen! Merci!!! http://www.tircollection.com/t8559-l...4-et-du-mp18-1

My guess is that the trommel magazines were serial numbered in sequence of manufacture. I am always amazed how many of these magazines are numbered in the mid 700,000 range. One of my Bing Brothers trommel magazines is 745537. If there were close to 3/4 of a million made, why are these magazines so "rare."

Eric,
Your last posted picture showed the MP18 with the snail drum magazines. I did not recognize what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. Perhaps these weapons and magazines were used up in the post WWI period.

That's my 2 cents.

Dick judging from this article they were available in many forms~https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum_magazine

Interesting Article~https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war...-magazine.html

Probably because they became pots and pans in the 1920's Germany.

Would have been small pots with a hole in the center.

History has repeated 'In time of war anything is possible' Eric, Esq.

I believe that the canned beverages are peach nectar, in Spanish. Perhaps the army officers are Spanish military prior to their civil war.

I should have said- after melting for raw material for pots and pans.:rolleyes: