Navy Take-Down Tool...(?)
 

Now on e-Bay for an opening bid of $ 250.00...:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...category=13976

Does this look right to anyone...?

Regards,

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I sure can't add a thing except that the "M" and anchor appear to be awfully crisp for an 80 year old tool. But . . . . I hope some of the Navy experts will offer an opinion. Are you there, Tom?

All,
That tool looks ok to me except that it is about $50 too high.
Tom A.

Most C/M proofed mag loading tools that I've seen have been phoney, since these dies have been available for many years. TH

Weren't Weimar Navy markings pantographed? I seem to recall that Weimar and early Nazi Navy Lugers were so marked, and therefore easily subject to faking. If the loading tools were also pantographed, a die struck tool marking would be a "double fake".

Ron, I cannot speak to Weimar Navy Luger markings. But, in my list of P06 safety reworks some of the 3 of 22 P06s in the database have the new"Gesichert" pantographed. All have the Capital G followed by lower case letters. Two are nicely milled or filled and milled, one appears to have been welded and rather roughly scraped. This would suggest to me that the Navy had access to pantograph equipment. I can't tell if it was Keil or Wilhelmshaven or both ( or shipboard) doing this marking.

On the other hand, setting a pantograph up for something as simple as a loading tool might seem like an overkill when it would be so easy to stamp. But, again, it was the Weimar navy with time on their hands and mechanics to train.