[mrerick]

The thing to remember about early production is that they were still working out the manufacturing engineering process details.

There might be little consistency during such a period.

There was certainly likely to be confusion about things like marking, especially with so many cooks stirring the soup... Everyone from the plant management and government inspectors through the Versailles committee representatives.


And yes, Jussi, E/6 marked parts are very rare. Only about 12,000 guns were made.

The only thing I can see as an issue is the lack of E/6 acceptance marking, which I would expect but which might have been overlooked in any case, particularly on a part re-purposed from older stock. Of course re-uniting them is also unlikely...

Thoughts? I'd still keep them together for the future...