[Edward Tinker]

Vern, I was a bit confused; you first talked about takedown levers and then showed pictures of the Gesichertâ?¦
I am hesitant in stating categorically that eagle 6's HAVE to be here or there on such a small part, unless we can find something in writing that states so.
I feel that going down the Costanzo road, a great work, but one where he felt that each nuance was a different proof or acceptance, well, in my opinion, it just isn't so. I believe that dies broke, got chipped and were replaced / remade; fairly frequently. So there would be differences. What has to happen is you have to look at parts made in the same time frame, i.e. within several hundred of each serial number. 1609 above is 1609a; and that is 2581 guns made later than 9028. That said, while writing the book and even after, I bought every Simson I could and could photograph, so I could compare proofs and acceptance markings. The exact placement of them is cause for further research...

That said, see the jpg I made earlier today, (took me an hour so pretend to be impressed)


This is interesting; these are not really in order of serial number, but it appears to make little differnce...