Crown/O Acceptance on Erfurts only?

[Don M]

I'm beginning to see the source of our disagreement --- we are using different alphabets! Mine, illustrated below, was taken from p. 142 of Görtz & Bryans' German Small Arms Markings from Authentic Sources (1997). This alphabet is also found in Görtz & Wacker's Handbuch Deutscher Waffenstempel (2005), pp. 333-42 and Still's Central Powers Pistols (2007), p. 16. I don't have a copy of Still's earlier Imperial Lugers but, if it has a Gothic alphabet, I suspect it is the same as in CPP. I hope someone can check this. Klaus, yours is similar to, but slightly different from, one of the two versions in Görtzz & Sturgess' The Borchardt - Luger Pistols (2010 & 2011), p. 463. What is the source of yours?