1915 '08 question

[Jeff Noll]

All, Very interesting discussion on a very unusual marking. I am going to have to think about this a bit but the first thing that comes to my mind is that the catalog this pistol is listed in may have misread/misprinted the marking. More than a couple of times I have spent time researching a marking only to find out is was reported incorrectly. Other questions are:

1) Is the "R" a Roman font or a Script? Script would indicate "Reserve" such as Ostasiatiches Reserve-Jaeger-Bataillon, Waffe Nr. 3

2) Is the "3" a small number indicating a weapon number or is it nearly the height of the letters?

I do not believe it is a Offizier-Reitschulen. These schools were at Paderborn, Soltau, Dresden, Sprottau and Beeskow. If there were a school in a town beginning with a "J" it would be a different story.

Likewise I agree with George A. that the Deutsche Ostasiatiches activity was nearly dead in 1915.

Is there any way to confirm this marking? w/r Jeff Noll