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Dwight Gruber · 11-21-2005, 02:42 AM

Mikkel,

There's not much to say from the info thus far. The holdopen is mismatch to the frame. The letters and symbols you describe are called "workers' marks", they are probably line inspection or completion stamps; there is no known index or "key" to their meaning. An odd notation, the circle-N stamp appears in the lug well of my 1917 LP-08, my 1917 Navy, -and- my Mauser 1936 S/42.

The figure on the trigger suggests it might have originated with an Erfurt.

Are there no serial numbers on any of the small parts?

--Dwight

11-21-2005, 02:42 AM	#10
Dwight Gruber User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Portland, Oregon Posts: 3,890 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1,282 Times in 424 Posts	Mikkel, There's not much to say from the info thus far. The holdopen is mismatch to the frame. The letters and symbols you describe are called "workers' marks", they are probably line inspection or completion stamps; there is no known index or "key" to their meaning. An odd notation, the circle-N stamp appears in the lug well of my 1917 LP-08, my 1917 Navy, -and- my Mauser 1936 S/42. The figure on the trigger suggests it might have originated with an Erfurt. Are there no serial numbers on any of the small parts? --Dwight