All,
I have seen, disassembled and gone over this gun thoroughly.
My *guess* and it is only a guess, as I can find nothing to back it up, is that this proof is a "secondary" proof, applied by some government entity for foreign manufactured weapons.
As Belgium was a significant colonial power during the latter part of the 19th and first part of the 20th Century, it is not beyond a reasonable speculation that this gun was acquired by Belgian forces in a foreign area of operations
(Africa, where Belgium had the Congo, and Germany had a great deal of West Africa -Remember "Last Voyage of the African Queen" with Bogey and Kate?)
and given a secondary proof by a colonial armory.
Granted, this is pure speculation, however I will ask the group for a better theory.
Cheers,
Tom A.
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