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Hi to all,
I recently bought a DWM 1918 # 6962h from an old gentleman here in Belgium, who claims to have got it from a German officer in 1944, just before the Allied forces came to Antwerp. He has kept it in his drawer untill now.
There are two markings on the grip strip.
The first is 8.M.VI.6. It is crossed out with five laying 'X' es.
The second, added to the right of the first reads: S.Ar.IV.344.
I have found the second marking in the book of Görtz & Bryans 'German Small Arms Markings' on page 93. Prussian Police (Schutzpolizei) 1922 (Weimar) Arnsberg, fourth centuria, weapon nr. 344.
About the first, deleted marking I have found nothing.
Any help in finding the whereabouts is very welcome...
I recently bought a DWM 1918 # 6962h from an old gentleman here in Belgium, who claims to have got it from a German officer in 1944, just before the Allied forces came to Antwerp. He has kept it in his drawer untill now.
There are two markings on the grip strip.
The first is 8.M.VI.6. It is crossed out with five laying 'X' es.
The second, added to the right of the first reads: S.Ar.IV.344.
I have found the second marking in the book of Görtz & Bryans 'German Small Arms Markings' on page 93. Prussian Police (Schutzpolizei) 1922 (Weimar) Arnsberg, fourth centuria, weapon nr. 344.
About the first, deleted marking I have found nothing.
Any help in finding the whereabouts is very welcome...