My New Luger...

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My 1906 Portugese M2 #2528 also has the "flaming bomb" inspector's mark inside the TD lever well. Actually appears to be a figure 8 with the top circle split in half. This is not the same inspector who used the Taurus sign (semicircle atop a full circle) on the M1900 lugers. The barrel did have the DWM shield, but overstamped with the serial. Interesting note: The "triangle in a circle", Portugese acceptance symbol, was later used by a Mauser inspector as his symbol on the rear of the frame of some post WW1 M1910/14 Mauser 25acp pistols. I've also seen the M1906 Brazilian "B in a circle", used as an inspector's mark on some Mauser 98 rifles. Appearantly, the German ordnance establishment did not throw away expensive dies, just recycled them to new inspector's as their symbols. I'm sure that there are some more examples. Let us know what you've noted. TH