One of the burning questions of our time laid to rest...

[jrhead75]

Well it's not quite as dramatic as that, but I did manage to stumble across some source material on a question that was discussed here some time back.

Purely by luck, I happened upon a blurb towards the end of John Walter's excellent "Guns of the Gurkhas" that mentioned the Indian practice of stamping the initials of the issuing arsenal along with the other data on the stock disks, and cited "Instructions for Armourers, Government of India Army Department, 1911", so I dug up a copy and (as seen in the below scans), found this...

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The one difference I've noted between instruction and practice seems to be the addition of the 'A' for 'Arsenal' for those locations with only one initial. In other words, Fort William Arsenal and Rawal Pindi Arsenal are usually denoted simply 'F.W.' & 'R.P.' while facilities like Quetta and Allahabad Arsenals would be denoted 'Q.A.' & 'A.A'. I don't recall ever seeing one stamped with only the single initial as illustrated in table VII above.

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