Hi Brad, I thought so- Norway the nicest country in Europe with exception of Germany off course.
I remember some nice days in Ackerhus, the Norwegian Army Museum and the Navy one in Tonsberg, too. I stayed in the public room of the Museum and was allowed to study some stuff in the non public rooms of the Museum. On one day I looked for 6 hours all the Luger magazines- there were many thousands and I “studied” each only for some seconds. On the next days I looked over the holsters, 8 hours, the whole day- nice stuff there!
I saw photos of the old Museum which was bombed in 1945- that was very impressive.
I have some good old friends in Norway.
2. The N and O property marks were added to the Lugers until mid 1942. The no. 2025g got with N 4910 is the highest property number I know to exist. In Stillīs Third Reich Luger is a good summary of serial ranges. I think I remember that in one year of the summary is a mistake of the suffix by misspelling the German letter.
3. Abnahmestempel or acceptance stamps were stuck by officers in order of the German Government (in this kind the Navy, but this practice was the same in the Army, Luftwaffe and Police and also in the Imperial time). I thought about writing about this on Jan Stills side some weeks ago but my English is not good enough to declare what I want to say.
The property stamps are fiscal stamps of the Navy and have nothing to do with the acceptance stamps.
Same with the Imperial or Police property stamps- also fiscal stamps.
Regards Klaus
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