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I had posed this question to Jan earlier and he has suggested that I put it on the Forum for comments and thoughts from the membership. </u>
I recently purchased a reworked military DWM 9mm, s/n 2983k, with a re-stamped chamber date of 1920. It has a sear safety and police numbered magazine magazine fairly typical of the period and the sideplate and rear toggle link have been restamped to have the complete 4 digit s/n on them. It also has an "S" in a circle stamped into the side of the left receiver just in front and above the serial number. In surfing through Weimar Lugers trying to identify this pistol I found 2 others with the same marking on pages 46 and 125. In both cases, the origin of the circled "S" was listed as unknown. With mine now making at least the third known example, I was hoping that one of you might know what it means. Costanzo seems to suggest that it could be a Simpson rework stamp, but I would have thought that Jan would have mentioned that if he had believed it. Any of you have some thoughts on this?
Thx, Lyn
I recently purchased a reworked military DWM 9mm, s/n 2983k, with a re-stamped chamber date of 1920. It has a sear safety and police numbered magazine magazine fairly typical of the period and the sideplate and rear toggle link have been restamped to have the complete 4 digit s/n on them. It also has an "S" in a circle stamped into the side of the left receiver just in front and above the serial number. In surfing through Weimar Lugers trying to identify this pistol I found 2 others with the same marking on pages 46 and 125. In both cases, the origin of the circled "S" was listed as unknown. With mine now making at least the third known example, I was hoping that one of you might know what it means. Costanzo seems to suggest that it could be a Simpson rework stamp, but I would have thought that Jan would have mentioned that if he had believed it. Any of you have some thoughts on this?
Thx, Lyn