Leon:
It should be patently obvious, no matter how I phrase my remarks, that what I type is my opinion on the matter. If you don’t like the syntax I chose, I don’t know what to tell you. Also, please go back up to my post and re-read the first sentence of my second paragraph. And as far as how I come to my conclusion, it is based on deductive reasoning. That is, going from the general, to the specific. In all my many years of collecting German rifles, and reading the most respected books on the subject, I have never come across such a marking in that location. As collectors, we should not make excuses for things that deviate so much from the norm. Indeed, it should be up to the person with the apparently oddball one-of-a-kind marked object to prove it’s not a fake, not the other way around.
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