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[John Sabato]

Originally Posted by sheepherder

Now, yes, they could be carved out with a rotary tool, but why stamp one year and rotary-tool another??? These should all be Mauser-Werke, right??? Why have two separate marking operations one year apart???

This has raised questions for me several times here...

The needs of wartime production can easily require a change in methods. Perhaps they opened an additional assembly line but only had one set of stamps, and had an engraver that wasn't being used... could be lots of reasons... maybe the die stamps were worn and they engraved some while waiting for replacements...