mac

Looks like a police department property number from the Weimar era. S stands for Schutzpolizei and K is the Prussian city abbreviation. I don't know the city but some one should be able to find it in Jan Still's book. There is the possibility this is a school marking. With the two numbers, it is a bit hard to nail down for me. If it was a single number or a roman numeral followed by an Arabic number, the police designation would be correct.


The most popular markings, though not the rarest, are the naval property marks that begin with "N" or "O". The "MG" marked pistols are popular and relatively common (machine gun units). K Kavallerie units are popular though not as much as MG units. Dragoner units "D" are similar to K.


The hospital/train markings are some of my favorite and are either "S" (sanitats) or script "T" which is artistically stamped on guns. For some odd reason, the T of train units is often if not always in fancy script. All other markings I have seen are crudely stamped.


Perhaps the rarest and also popular markings are the "Fl" flieger troops (flying units) but I have not seen one.


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