Serial Number vs side plate inside number

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Originally Posted by mrerick

Most of the Mauser side plates were numbered as Ron described. If your gun serial is 9507x then the inside plate number would be "96" and the outside "07".

For a brief time, in the 1930s, the inside number matched the first two digits of the serial number.

Not sure if any other manufacturers did this.

Marc

Marc,

Krieghoff for a portion of their production put the first two numbers of the serial number inside some parts, including the side plate. And again for a portion of their production put the last two digits on the serial number on the outside of the side plate.

All these variations occurred over a 10 year period and the grand total of about 13,000 guns were produced. A little over a month's production at Mauser. Different scale of production entirely.

John