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Compiling this data (for any/all models of S&S) to hopefully one day be able to connect numbered pistols, mags, holsters to a specific armorer, organizational unit, location, etc by similarity of the numbered-mag's "numbering pattern" and other associated "clues" reflected on number-matched holsters and pistols. By the way, I already have about 60 JP Sauer & Sohn serial-numbered-mags which reflect 33 different "numbering patterns" (not counting any of the bazillion or more un-numbered S&S mags) - so not seeing there was any standard serial numbering regulation imposed upon all police or other authorities' armorers. Please note that inventory or unit numbered mags are also to be included in this survey.
If anyone with a number-marked S&S mag would please send me mag pictures (and especially also matched-pistol and matched-holster markings) I will add it to my study's database AND for "orphan mags" I will share a listing to help contributors perhaps find their missing numbered-mag (like Tom Whiteman has done for Walther orphan mags). Please either post here or PM me for confidentiality
Here is an example: say, a serial numbered S&S 38H mag reflects the "numbering pattern" of: the last 4 digits of its serial-number-matched mag are stamped at the top of the mag's spine with the "reading order" of those digits (ie, from left to right) pointing towards the 6 o'clock direction (ie, base) of the mag. Here is a picture:
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Continuing with this example, say, the serial-number-matched holster of this "rig" is acceptance-stamped with the familiar police "eagle-over-B" marking and reflects inside the name, rank and address of the German police officer to whom it was issued. What I am saying is MAYBE other serial-number-matched S&S mags would have been consistently so marked by this same armorer, or other armorers of the same location or organizational unit, which might have followed some regulation to mark all mags with this same "numbering pattern"
If anyone with a number-marked S&S mag would please send me mag pictures (and especially also matched-pistol and matched-holster markings) I will add it to my study's database AND for "orphan mags" I will share a listing to help contributors perhaps find their missing numbered-mag (like Tom Whiteman has done for Walther orphan mags). Please either post here or PM me for confidentiality
Here is an example: say, a serial numbered S&S 38H mag reflects the "numbering pattern" of: the last 4 digits of its serial-number-matched mag are stamped at the top of the mag's spine with the "reading order" of those digits (ie, from left to right) pointing towards the 6 o'clock direction (ie, base) of the mag. Here is a picture:
Continuing with this example, say, the serial-number-matched holster of this "rig" is acceptance-stamped with the familiar police "eagle-over-B" marking and reflects inside the name, rank and address of the German police officer to whom it was issued. What I am saying is MAYBE other serial-number-matched S&S mags would have been consistently so marked by this same armorer, or other armorers of the same location or organizational unit, which might have followed some regulation to mark all mags with this same "numbering pattern"
