Remember my slightly overstrawed P08?

[Don M]

Gerben,

The mystery deepens! If the mark is truly PW. without an intermediate period, it does not conform to a Prussian police school mark. The intermediate period was dropped from police school marks in 1932 but there was no school with a W. abbreviation at that time.

The fact that this mark is reversed from normal probably indicates it was made in the early 1920s before the 1922 orders standardized these marks. This may be consistent with a very early weapon number 2. If I had to bet on this, I would bet that there was a period between the P and W (perhaps lightly stamped) that has disappeared and that this was marked by the police school at Muenster at a time when it was known as the Westfalen police school. This is all in the "for what it's worth" category!