Crown/O Acceptance on Erfurts only?

[Ron Wood]

Originally Posted by Dwight Gruber

Don,

The mark you picture is identified as F on p.463 of the Sturgess "red edition".

--Dwight

Close but not quite. The F on p.463 has a very pronounced serif on the top left of the letter. The mark Don posted is sans serif. It does resemble the blurry image on p.462 that G&S identify as a F but it is hard to tell. Don's mark still most closely resembles the Fraktur O that he originally posted. As with many things in the early production and inspection marking of Lugers there appear to be exceptions to what has been published in the research. We are always learning.