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Hello everybody out there.
Talking with another collector from Swizerland this evening, he told me that he got 2 mags with wood bottoms and a blued body - that is exactly what I have in my collection!
I have seen a lot of magazines already and I think I can recognize a fake, but in this case I be 99% shure that the magazine was originally mounted together in the early days, I cant see any rework tracs ore something - but why is a mag with wood bottom blued and not nickel plated? My mag however does not have any numbers ore markings but seems 99% correct to me!
Which explanation is possible?
- to use old parts
- a subvariation between the nickel aluminium bottom and the blued aluminium bottom type?

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Here is another picture!
A idea of me: could be that in the late days of WWI nickel was rare and they did decide to blue the magazines???

Roland

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Hello Heinz and Dave,
the magazine is a crimped sheet metal varietv., of course.
What I can say for shure, that it never had been nickel plated and there is no chopper remaining on the magazine body - copper is sometimes used to chrome metal parts - but I dont think that nickel needs any copper on the base.


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So again, the mag looks correct to my like ALBERT is saying that too!!
I m making mylelf wood bases reproductions, and I have some experience with recognizing them - but anyhow, hope we can find something to explain that courios thing.

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