Nazi and Imperial proofs

[Edward Tinker]

Originally Posted by postino

My thought was that if it stayed in gov't service after WW I it should have been stamped with the '1920' marking...No?

See Weimar Lugers by Still, and other threads, that discuss how some were not marked; possibilities are;

1. Many thousands, perhaps hundred thousand + / - were hidden from the allied commission

2. Officers / Non-Coms and others who did not turn them in and personally owned them were not required to have them stamped with the 1920

3. Some police did not mark their weapons as this was an army directive originally