Quote Originally Posted by Jim View Post
There is so much going on with this that is right that one questionable stamp doesn't signify.
... one questionable stamp doesn't signify ...

I respectfully suggest that your reasoning is erroneous. If something is mostly right, that does not prove that it is completely right. No-one has questioned that this is a Jugoslav rifle. The question is: has it been falsified. Just one fake stamp means that it has been falsified, even if everything else is 100%. That seems to be the issue.

FWIW. I cannot find a match to that incomplete marking that looks similar to a Reichsadler marking in "Handbuch Deutscher Waffenstempel auf Militär- und Diensthandwaffen 1871-2000" - 400 pages of hard facts and documentary evidence, not just a collection of opinions and hearsay. Neither can I match up the fragmentary "Fraktur" stamp on the barrel band with any stamp in the same book, which lists all identified inspectors stamps at the time of writing.

Of course, this does NOT prove that the stamps are fake. They may, for instance, be quite simply not Germanicon military stamps. And books are guidelines, not guarantees. But it does mean that until their provenance has been established, they must be regarded as suspect.

Patrick
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