DWM 1920 - police?

[Don M]

John,

You scored, big time!! Congratulations.

The markings are from the Schutzpolizei of Berlin. The canceled marking indicates the pistol belonged to one of the two Police Inspectorates in Police Group East (Ost). The two Inspectorates in this Group were the city districts of WeiÃ??ensee and Lichtenberg but I don't know which was I and which was II.

Around 1930, these fairly complicated markings were replaced with a simplified form that included all of Berlin's 16-17,000 weapons in a single series of numbers. In your case, the new marking was S.B.13439.

Even though the markings on your gun do not contain an R., I believe it was a precinct police weapon because of the sear and mag safeties. The precinct police markings from this Inspectorate apparently omitted the R.