Heinz,
I keep reading and rereading your post regarding assembling, measuring, testing and proofmarking the artillery. I may be missing something here. In the Sept/Oct 2001 issue of the Handgunner magazine, there is an excellent picture of a 1916 DWM LP-08 with an Erfurt army proofmark on the barrel. It seems logical that that proofmark would have to have been placed there before all the assembling, testing and soforth. I am thinking that the barrel would have to have been created, measured and proofed at Erfurt before being shipped to DWM for further work.
Big Norm
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