Fausto,
Ok, personally, I don't believe this Eckhardt & Lohkamp story but I will look into it more closely. I know that some dealers have been boosting / faking all sorts of tools and gauges, usually those that came from Norwegian and DDR facilities during the last 20 years.
It is quite easy to pantograph some extra text on a largely unmarked DDR gauge and transform it into a 'WW2 specimen'.
The 'Waffenamting' also took place on Norwegian large calibre ammunition, since Norway took over a lot of German weaponry they produced their own ammunition, modelled after the original German stuff. When this Norwegian surplus hit the market, the head stamps were removed with a turning lathe and new 'Old WW2' stamps were added, thus creating a 'rare WW2 vintage piece'.
The gmm ordnance code and the 9mm designation are too close to call it a coincidence, I'm not ready to accept this (yet). Apart from that, Waffenamt 42 is usually associated with companies like Polte in Magdeburg, and Klinge and Heinichen in Dresden.
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