Hi Ed ! Thanks for your input too my friend ! I'm kinda like your opinion that a private owner would not have stamps, or a reason to stamp, an inventory ? stamp on his pistol. I think only, like you say, a unit, a company, or some military command would strike a 4 digit inventory #. Would the German Navy of 1900 have done something like this ? It wasn't long afterward ( 1906 ) that they started doing this to Lugers. The overall condition kinda reminds me of saltwater exposure also. This is what has puzzeld me for all these years.
Dunno my friend...... Myky
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