Data for Paul
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Thanks Lewis, this is for 6151?
The BC is actually BI.13, for Bismackhütte (Poland today), the "13" is a lot, not a date, they didn't date the lots in Imperial-Weimar era, which really sucks as it causes issues with whether the barrel is original in some cases. Not so much with Danzig & Erfurt-Suhl-Dresden as they have unique acceptance & fireproofs to differentiate the facilities, but MO and the Berlin firms can be tough sometimes.
Worse if they had dated Simson barrels, which they didn't, it would help with when the rifles were made. Even today it is not possible to tell looking at the rifles alone. JoeS recently pointed out that the contract was probably fulfilled at the end of the "f" block, that they didn't just end there in normal production, say due to the nazis pulling the plug on the contract in 1933, that it was likely the end of the contracted amount. This is important because it would add more doubt to the dates Simson 98b were made, as if it is an average per year you can noodle that out easy enough, assuming a 10 year contract, but if it was just 70k rifles then they could have been made-delivered at anytime between 1924-1932, probably much earlier.
Hopefully Jon Speed will discover something important for Mike to use, in this regard, of how the contract was organized.
The BC is actually BI.13, for Bismackhütte (Poland today), the "13" is a lot, not a date, they didn't date the lots in Imperial-Weimar era, which really sucks as it causes issues with whether the barrel is original in some cases. Not so much with Danzig & Erfurt-Suhl-Dresden as they have unique acceptance & fireproofs to differentiate the facilities, but MO and the Berlin firms can be tough sometimes.
Worse if they had dated Simson barrels, which they didn't, it would help with when the rifles were made. Even today it is not possible to tell looking at the rifles alone. JoeS recently pointed out that the contract was probably fulfilled at the end of the "f" block, that they didn't just end there in normal production, say due to the nazis pulling the plug on the contract in 1933, that it was likely the end of the contracted amount. This is important because it would add more doubt to the dates Simson 98b were made, as if it is an average per year you can noodle that out easy enough, assuming a 10 year contract, but if it was just 70k rifles then they could have been made-delivered at anytime between 1924-1932, probably much earlier.
Hopefully Jon Speed will discover something important for Mike to use, in this regard, of how the contract was organized.
