Bernie, Your upper photo tool is accepted with a fraktur "V" and the lower with a "D". It is thought that these letters were the first initial of the inspector's last name, similar to the Swiss system of a cross over the military inspector's initial. In cases were the was more than one inspector working with the same last initial, the newer man will have a "rocker" (a curved line under the initial) added. Since this is just a theory, I haven't researched if this acceptance mark moved with the inspector to inspecting other products (pistols, rifles, tools, etc.) as did the WaA numbered during the WW2 period. Since there were a lot fewer WaAs used in WW2 than Imperial inspector's marks, I believe that in WW2 the WaA was that of the office of the head inspector and only used for final inspection of critical parts and that his subinspectors used other symbols (numbers as found inside grips, letters such as intertwined RW on late Mauser PO8s & HSCs, or other obsolete dies around the plant eg: Portugese triangle in a circle on the rear frame of many post WW1 M1910 Mauser pistols and the Brazilian B in a circle on some German military Mauser 98 rifles. TH
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