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Originally Posted by MFC
Doug,
Sorry to disagree but, this is the way I understand it...
The 'Crown/gothic letter' is a military acceptance stamp. Different stamps, with the first letter of the inspectors last name, were assigned to each individual inspector. Many different letters can be found on WWI tools.
WWII military tools should have an acceptance stamp.
There are a few WWII era unmarked commercial tools but, would not be correct for a military rig.
Most unmarked tools are DWM (the shape is different) and are correct with military or commercial rigs.
Robert,
You probably have a C/Z marked tool.
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Let me try to explain the differences of the tools during the time with my "I know 100 words English".
You are right that the gothic letters during the Imperial time are the first letter of the inspector’s last name. But these tools came in 1910 according the 1910 dated stamping order and were stopped in 1919 when Germany was a Republic. All tools before 1910 were without the acceptance marks and these tools are rare!- Much rarer than these with the acceptance.
The military III. Reich tools have the eagle/ 63, 655 and 135 acceptance marks (K-and G date Luger have usually other acceptance) and the stamps are for an "Abnahmebeamten" which have military ranks. Don Hallock and Joop van de Kant wrote their names the first time in their book "The Mauser Parabellum". The III Reich tools without acceptance were for example issued to the byf Luger which went to Portugal in 1943.
I think Norm is right: the 655 tool is correct for the 1939 Luger.
And MFC is correct that the Imperial tool is the C/Z for the DWM first issue and the other early Lugers with this acceptance.
Dave Lindsay offers a 52 pages article about tools on Janīs site.