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My bet is that it is some sort of tool imprint that was impressed into either the hide or the holster by accident during the proccessing of the hide or the fabrication of the holster. This may have been formed by some sort of clamping tool....hard to say.


I can tell you that the German Army fielded close to 500 Divisions...averaging 3-4 regiments each and when you throw in the other services you can easily come with as many as 3000 units that had some sort of tactical symbol....I'm not expert in all of these by any means...but have looked at about 1500 of them. I never recall seeing one had such non-descript qualities as the mark on the holster pictured. Also I find the location, size and most of all the presence of a stamped "unit symbol" on a piece of equipment like a holster to be un-likely.


I have seen (and own one) holster with larger unit symbols applied to the reverse and or flap (both inside and out). These are usually informally applied by the owner, I suppose out of a combination of pride and boredom.


IMO "expertise" has little or nothing to do with being able or not being able to conclusivily ID the stamp, there are plenty of un-answered questions on militaria and firearms of all types, regardless of how much they are studied.


I would recommend that if you could acertain where in Holland and the date (approx) that your father obtained the pistol, it would/may be possible to find which German unit/s this could have belonged to....I may be able to rule in or out if the marking is related to any of those units.


It may be frustrating to have something that you don't know all the answers to (I have items that took me 20 plus years to ID and still many more that no one I've showed them to can ID) but it is the nature of the subject and does not reflect on the knowledge or willingness to help possesed by collectors. I will help you any way I can but my initial feeling is that the mark does not represent anything.