WTK German Ortgies...

[RockinWR]

Lloyd,
* Suspect you may already know the following as this subject has been discussed before under "L.Z.A. marking" here on the Forum.
* Following are excerpts taken from an 8/99 AutoMag article written by J.Cates/M.Krause:
(1) L.Z.St. = Leder-Zuweisungs-Stelle = Leather Allocation place(district office).
(2) J = I = Inspection
(3) Fbg. = "It could be that the Fbg. seen on some holsters.....is not the abbreviation of Freiburg [near Karlsrule (BA district XIV)]; but, of Freiberg, a town in Saxony near Dresden (BA district XII)".
(4) "The job of the BA's were to procure equipment and to supply the equipment to the troops; but, it was probably not the job of the BA to ration and to supply leather to the producers and grant orders for the delivery of their products. That was the job of the L.Z.'s...handling contract orders for the Army to commercial manufacturers of leather goods(in contrast to the Army owned & operated workshops such as the AWM artillery workshop in Munich and AWSp artillery workshop in Spandau)".
(5) "L.Z.'s were established in 1914".
* OBTW: I know little about these pistols, beyond the above; but, a local full line Gun Store in the neighborhood has two nice ones, as I recall, for sale. Guns only: one in 6.35mm; the other in 7.65mm Cal. If anyone is looking seriously for one, drop me a PM & I'll forward you the store's name, address, phone#'s, contact, etc.
Respectfully,
Bob