I do not feel this magazine is original or correct and here are my thoughts on it. To my knowledge this type of magazine, ( square cut on the bottom and pinned in the center) will only have a blued magazine base and are convex pinned. The blank blued tubes without a logo can have either a convex pin or a concav rivot.
The HS magazines that I have and have looked at are the nickel spine marked, the nickel side logo, and third the nickel side logo with an E/L. All are pinned on the end, not the center. Then the blue body side logo with convex center pin, and then the no logo blue body with either a convex or concav pin. I am not aware of a nickel center pinned variation.
The nickel side logo with an E/L are a unique style of magazine due to the magazine body being made like the blue body side logo magazines, except they are not square cut on the bottom and are pinned on the end, not center pinned.
Again, I am not aware of a variation of HS magazines that are nickel side logo's with a center pin. The magazine in question in this thread has been made to this configuration and is not a standard, as issued magazine. Look on pg 172 of Third Reich Lugers for 4 variations. Compare the end pin and the square cut center pin. -- Bill
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