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Unread 05-10-2012, 11:56 PM   #10
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Perhaps I am misinterpreting a scratch at the top of the base as a number one. The magazine is real. It is an early model that is stamped and folded, rather than extruded. The base has a proper Eagle over 63, (e/63) acceptance stamp. The "+" indicates it was the spare magazine for a pistol made in the "C" block of a particular production run. The original serial numbers have been removed and it has been re stamped to "match" the gun.

If it did have a number 1 at the top of the base, it might have been issued to the Weimar police, but since your gun does not exhibit any typical police characteristics, it is doubtful. (The police used "1" and "2" to indicate primary and spare magazine, versus the Army's no mark on primary and a "+" on the spare magazine).
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