Flare Gun Unit Marking

MarkC · 03-04-2019, 08:15 PM

It has been a while since I posted here but figured the collective group can help me identify this unit marking on a police starburst K flare gun I picked up at the recent SOS.

It is marked M.G.D.9

I know it is a machine gun unit but what is the D?

Dusseldorf? or something else?

Thanks!

Mark

MarkC · 03-05-2019, 12:37 PM

One of the collectors on another forum has given me the true meaning. It is a Prussian Police marking from a 1934/5 contract.

Mecklenberg Gendarmerie District 9

It is explained in a German Language book "Dienstwaffen der deutschen Polizei und Gendarmerie, 1919-1933"

sheepherder · 03-05-2019, 12:40 PM

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Originally Posted by MarkC

One of the collectors on another forum has given me the true meaning...

That sounds like 'signalman' from Still's forum on Gunboards. I think I read that he was breaking up his flare gun collection. It may have been he from whom you bought that flare gun.

MarkC · 03-05-2019, 02:38 PM

I bought the gun from Howard (Signalman) when I saw him in Louisville. It is my understanding that there are very few of this variation out there.

03-05-2019, 12:37 PM	#2
MarkC User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 482 Thanks: 1 Thanked 126 Times in 29 Posts	One of the collectors on another forum has given me the true meaning. It is a Prussian Police marking from a 1934/5 contract. Mecklenberg Gendarmerie District 9 It is explained in a German Language book "Dienstwaffen der deutschen Polizei und Gendarmerie, 1919-1933"

03-05-2019, 02:38 PM	#4
MarkC User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 482 Thanks: 1 Thanked 126 Times in 29 Posts	I bought the gun from Howard (Signalman) when I saw him in Louisville. It is my understanding that there are very few of this variation out there.