1906 AE Luger Rebarrel.......ALMOST

Dwight Gruber · 06-23-2004, 12:30 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Pete Ebbink:
2. If they are British proof markings, why do they appear on AE's targeted for the US markets ?<hr /></blockquote>Paging through my back issues of Auto Mag, I ran across a discussion of German commercial proof marks in an article on Mauser HSc (Auto Mag, Vol. XXXIV Oct. 2001, p.150).

When various countries established national proof laws, reciprocity agreements were negotiated which were were favorable to gunmakers because they reduced the expense of re-proofing exported guns. For this reason, German gunmakers insisted that the German Proof Laws of 1891 be formulated following the original British model.

--Dwight

06-23-2004, 12:30 AM	#20
Dwight Gruber User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Portland, Oregon Posts: 3,908 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1,330 Times in 435 Posts	</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">Originally posted by Pete Ebbink: <strong>2. If they are British proof markings, why do they appear on AE's targeted for the US markets ?</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">Paging through my back issues of Auto Mag, I ran across a discussion of German commercial proof marks in an article on Mauser HSc (Auto Mag, Vol. XXXIV Oct. 2001, p.150). When various countries established national proof laws, reciprocity agreements were negotiated which were were favorable to gunmakers because they reduced the expense of re-proofing exported guns. For this reason, German gunmakers insisted that the German Proof Laws of 1891 be formulated following the original British model. --Dwight