Is this common?

[Ron Smith]

Don,

One of our most knowleable members (I won't use any names) has stated on several occasions that he has never found anything from the Allied Commission or in the Treaty of Versailles restricting pistol barrel length.

I'm not saying for certain one way or the other, because I don't know. I'm going by what he and I have discussed.

I have seen 2 or 3 LP.08s with early Provisional Reichswehr Unit marks. At some point they had them in inventory, at least prior to reorganiztion and downsizing circa 1923. And I have seen photos of Freikorps units with LP.08s. I've never seen an intact Reichswehr marked LP.08 holster.

When leather is tooled, as in a fancy tooled holster. The leather is moistened with a sponge soaked in warm water and rubbing alcohol so that the leather will take a well defined sharp impression. The mark appears as if it was done in this manner.

Ron