[quote]Originally posted by Edmond , DCB shooting:
<strong>And one more thing, Gentlemen, for us european collectors, it has even something more, the imperial crown has one small part missing, we call it here broken tooth pistol because one " tooth " of the stamping tool was broken in summer 1918, 1000 has been produced like that , usually they were rejected, but not this batch sent to the western front as fast as possible where they were desperately needed.and WOW, that's the third broken tooth I see and I shot one, a wonderful pistol..</strong><hr></blockquote>
Edmond, I'm at work now and don't have my books handy but I seem to recall that other years of Erfurt production also had incomplete crowns stamped on the toggle. I believe 1917 had some too
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