1914 Erfurt Dilemma

Johnny Peppers · 08-05-2002, 10:10 PM

Herb,
Look on page 326 of your Costanzo book. There Sam shows three different letter suffix lower case cursive b's, all with tails. That was the reasoning behind my theory that the q could be an incomplete stamp of the letter b. The theory seems to be more sound than the letter being a q if the pistol is actually a 1914 dated Erfurt.
The Erfurts cannot be identified simply by a crude finish. The early Erfurts exhibited a finish almost on a par with the DWM's of the period. As with any military firearm the finish will vary from weapon to weapon, but I have a 1914 dated Erfurt P08 with as nice a finish as any DWM of 1914. As the war progressed, Erfurt's finish seemed to suffer more than DWM's.

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08-05-2002, 10:10 PM	#7
Johnny Peppers User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Calion, Arkansas Posts: 1,042 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Herb, Look on page 326 of your Costanzo book. There Sam shows three different letter suffix lower case cursive b's, all with tails. That was the reasoning behind my theory that the q could be an incomplete stamp of the letter b. The theory seems to be more sound than the letter being a q if the pistol is actually a 1914 dated Erfurt. The Erfurts cannot be identified simply by a crude finish. The early Erfurts exhibited a finish almost on a par with the DWM's of the period. As with any military firearm the finish will vary from weapon to weapon, but I have a 1914 dated Erfurt P08 with as nice a finish as any DWM of 1914. As the war progressed, Erfurt's finish seemed to suffer more than DWM's.