Whoa,
This is a late one, indeed. DWM quit producing on the 20th of December, 1918. Apart from a small skeleton crew all workers were laid off and nothing was produced between december 1918 and spring 1919.
Starting from 1919 they produced small quantities of weapons for peacetime purposes again. I guess this is one of them. This postwar production was not as much intended for profit but in order to secure the ownership of the production facilities under the Versailles treaty of 28th june 1919.
If the machinery was not used, it had to be destroyed so they tried producing everything from pushbuttons to drills and typewriters to keep their machine parks from being impounded and scrapped.
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