[Schupo]

Thank you for the information gentlemen!

It seems that the postwar kit was called the SE-08 indicating the Selbstlade-Einstecklauf fur Pistole 08. This is basically the same verbal designation that the wartime German Police used but their abbreviation was different.

My small box kit is a Police marked kit (Eagle/F) so I looked it up in the 1943 police manual by Karl Fischer. The "Waffentechnischer Leitfaden fur die Ordnungspolizei" talks about the kit on pages 342-345. Fischer titles it "Der Selbstlade-Einstecklauf (SEL.) fur Pistole 08." There are pictures of the parts but not of the wooden box or magazine. The kit is repeatedly called the "SEL." with no other designation or description of the "small box" or the "large box" wooden kits. These seem to be collector designations.

I don't know if the military designation was different but "SEL." was seemingly the official wartime Polizei designation with no distinction between the different boxed kits.

George