1917 Death Head

[SIGP2101]

Originally Posted by Vlim

Just a reminder. In Germany a retired gun smith has come forward, who claimed he applied these TK markings on behalf of a German importer around 1960.

So treat these markings with some reservations and remember that they start to show patina because they have been applied some 60 years ago by now.

And beside that they look cartoonishly silly like my 6 years old would designed them.
That wasn’t German way nooo way.

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by SIGP2101

And beside that they look cartoonishly silly like my 6 years old would designed them.
That wasn’t German way nooo way.

Somewhere on this Forum is a pic of a Freikorps truck with the same cartoonish skull & bones...

Let's remember, these were not skilled craftsman, proud of their work...they were bar room clowns; thugs who beat up elderly shopkeepers and who brawled in the streets with Communist demonstrators...

That even one of them could carve any graphic out of a piece of steel and stamp it on pistols & rifles (there are pics of the skull on rifles too) is remarkable...

As for Vlim's comment, that is certainly possible...but did that mechanic do *all* the death's head lugers, rifles, and trucks??? Nooo way...