Odd take-down tool
 

I have come across a take-down tool with a proof unknown to me. It is a capital "W" in Roman font with a squarish shield above it. I can email a photo if that would help.

Email a photo...it would help. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />

On the way Ron.

Here it is. I haven't a clue. Will have to hit the books.

http://forums.lugerforum.com/lfuploa...skate_key1.jpg

Ron, I've been through my books and come up empty handed. Someone suggested that it was Dutch (Wilhelmina) but I tend to toss that out.

Good toss...I don't think it is Dutch either.

George... could you possibly take the photo with a little more focus and zoom on just the stamp... I have tried examining the stamp under high magnification but it gets too pixelated too fast to see the image...

I know my eyes could be better, but let me bounce this off you guys and see if you can "picture" what I "see" here... could this be an eagle over a swastika that has been flattened by the shield shaped mark to obliterate it? as is required in some European nations? The "W" could be anything... I can't find this mark in any of my books either...

Just my guess that probably doesn't even add up to http://forums.lugerforum.com/lfupload/2phennig.jpg

George, any of these look like it? :confused:

http://forums.lugerforum.com/lfupload/coatgr.gif GERMAN STATE'S COAT OF ARMS - An old image showing the German National Arms between the arms of the former West German States and their predecessors : small shield from top left (year of oldest picture): Hamburg (1450), Bremen (1369), Braunschweig-Grubenhagen (1390), Berlin (1460), Hessen (1247), Bayern (1302), Schwaben (1216), Saarbr�¼cken (1284), Rheinpfalz (1252), Westfalen (1480) and Schleswig-Holstein (1386); Main shield: Hamburg, Bremen, Niedersachsen, Berlin, Hessen, Bayern, Baden-W�¼rttemberg, Saarland, Rheinland-Pfalz, Nordrhein-Westfalen and Schleswig-Holstein.
Germany is divided in States (L�¤nder). These states are subdivided in Landkreise or Rural districts, which are made up of municipalities (Gemeinden) and Kreisfreie St�¤dte, or cities. In some states municipalities are combined into �?mter and Grossgemeinden (larger bodies, but the individual municipalities still exist).
Source: Heraldik aus 9 Jahrhunderten - zur Geschichte des Familienwappens.

Looks like the Anheuser Busch "A" logo,just a thought..................

Several years ago I had one with just W or M on it. No crest or anything. It got legs at a shoot. Wondered whether it belonged to some navy type issue.