Mismatched P08-Anything interesting about it?

[Ron Wood]

Originally Posted by Chickenthief

Did the Germans mark export guns with "Germany" from git go or did it come to after WWI ?

From the git go...it was a requirement of the 1890 McKinley Tariff Act. Country of origin was required to be marked on goods to be imported into the United States...not just guns.

[Chickenthief]

Originally Posted by Ron Wood

From the git go...it was a requirement of the 1890 McKinley Tariff Act. Country of origin was required to be marked on goods to be imported into the United States...not just guns.

It's just that my 1921 DWM is marked "Germany" and i'm pretty sure it never crossed the Atlantic, and has stayed in the old world it's whole life.
So i assumed it was a thing from Versailles regulations at the end of WWI

[Sergio Natali]

Originally Posted by Chickenthief

It's just that my 1921 DWM is marked "Germany" and i'm pretty sure it never crossed the Atlantic, and has stayed in the old world it's whole life.
So i assumed it was a thing from Versailles regulations at the end of WWI

Don't think that the GERMANY mark has anything to do wit the Versailles Treaty unless that gun was supposed to be sold abroad.

[DonVoigt]

Originally Posted by Chickenthief

It's just that my 1921 DWM is marked "Germany" and i'm pretty sure it never crossed the Atlantic, and has stayed in the old world it's whole life.
So i assumed it was a thing from Versailles regulations at the end of WWI

There is no way to know if your pistol was stamped for export and then for some reason not exported and remained in Europe; quite possible as others have reported "Germany" marked examples from Europe.

The requirement for the stamping of "Germany or Made in Germany" predates the Treaty, no question. As they say- don't "assume".
It exists on luger pistols from 1900 by the hundreds.