Is this an Austrian unit marking?

[NoncomRetired]

Originally Posted by Norme

This particular gun has been the subject of prolonged debate on Jan Still's forum. The problem with Noncom's interpretation (which was also mine) is that Artillery Regiments did not have companies, they had Abteilungs and Battereien.
Regards, Norm
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Having spent seven years in the Filed Artillery, I had taken the 'K' used into consideration. What we have here is trying to interpret what transpired in assigning this Luger with this unit identification over 100 years ago. We don't really know what "exactly" happened.

Maybe the armorer had just been transferred to the artillery, after ten years service in the infantry and he hadn't become artillerized!!!!. Who knows???? Maybe he thought infantrymen were more smarter and had an attitude. I know we signal corpsmen always believed, 'if ya give an artilleryman a sold steel ball, he would have found a way to break it in five minutes"

What both you and I conceived was a natural interpretation.