George, thanks for the suggestions on the markings. My gun is a Nazi reworked gun with the E/L marking on the opposite side. It seems to me that the W.C. markings pre-date the rework because the E/N and the triangle look like they were squeezed in between the markings and the edge of the frame. I think some sort of solder was used to fill in another marking that was under it (as John has noted) that the bluing did not take to when the gun was reworked. I've never seen another Steyr with a similar marking in that location.
John, I realize that Korps is spelled with a "K" in German and there is a "C" in my marking. This was the suggestion of the curator of the Austrian Military Museum, Dr. Christian Ortner, who is a native German speaker. If he felt that W.C. could be an abbreviation for Wach-Korps, then I felt good with it too. You'll find in German that some letters are often interchanged with each other. Another example of this is the Heereszeugamt Ingolstadt is abbreviated "Jst" or "Jt" or sometimes even spelled Jngolstadt. Ryan
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