1941 BYF question

[bill m]

Hi,

The Eagle 655 and Eagle 135 stamp are the army acceptance stamp. In the byf 41 model there are 3 combinations that one can see. First the production suffix's that the byf 41 are found in are: N,O,P,Q,R,S,T,U,V,W,X,Y,Z,no suffix,A, and B. The first variation is the E/655 E/655, and this is by far the most common and goes from the start of the byf production up to about the last 20,000 made roughly, from N into the no suffix. The second variation is the E/655 E/135 and is the least found of the three, and is usually just found in the no suffix block. The third variation is the E/135 E/135 and is found roughly from the mid no suffix block into the early B suffix block. If you look at the letter blocks, and use 9999 Lugers for each block, you can get a vague idea of how many of each variation were produced.