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Unread 06-21-2003, 03:21 AM   #9
Dwight Gruber
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From the Instructions for Markings Applied to Pistols 08, 1910 (as amended through 1914) (G�¶rtz & Bryans, "German Small Arms Markings" p.111):

"3. Receiver, hardended: 3.2mm inspector's mark, plus the year of manufacture (3.2mm high, 9mm wide)."

The Notes, appended to the instructions, state:

"4.) Receivers from reserve stocks, where the year of manufacture does not correspond with the year of completion of the weapon, will receive a 2.1mm-high correction for the year of completion behind the manufacture-year in fractional form. For example: 1909/13.

"Receivers newly installed in troop-service weapons will receive this correction according to the manufacturing year og the old components. For example, 1913/09." (ibid., p.114)

Examples of this marking can be seen in Still's "Imperial Lugers", p.78, and "Weimar Lugers" pp. 76 and 82--these examples are Erfurts.

If I recall correctly I have seen one in the flesh--steel--and a few months ago there was an Erfurt so marked for sale on one of the auction sites.

--Dwight
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