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Unread 02-04-2014, 09:45 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by mrerick View Post
The toggle die had the thinner "4" in 1938.
Here is my skepticism of that...If the GA toggle were stamped with a die, the ends should not be rounded...Grinding a die that small with the ends of the characters rounded would take a lot of time and effort...More than justified IMO...'Squared' ends can be done by machine, rounding them (back then) would take either hand-tooling or sophisticated machinery...

Now, yes, they could be carved out with a rotary tool, but why stamp one year and rotary-tool another??? These should all be Mauser-Werke, right??? Why have two separate marking operations one year apart???

This has raised questions for me several times here...
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