What’s the tell tale sign?
Like Marc said, the fireproof is an Erfurt Eagle, dead give away as to the assembler. Another way to tell is the acceptance. Here is my Erfurt stern built using an Amberg receiver. Note Second two characters on the receiver acceptance are identical to yours, indicating Erfurt assembled the receiver into a rifle.
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I wonder if they might have sent a lot of parts in the same shipment? Excess they had on hand at Spandau?
That scenario could easily be true and probably was the case in many circumstances. Though I’m not sure we can ever prove that forensically. When it came to spare and subcontracted parts there were many players. Small subcontractors and large arsenals. The big players in the spare parts game were Mauser, Spandau, and Amberg. Amberg was a major player in 1916. Mauser and probably Spandau were in the game through the end of the war. The only trepidation I would have about Spandau was the fact they stopped making rifles in 1917, so I could see large volumes of spares getting shuffled into 1918 even if they weren’t making them. With that said, my gut tells me they were just from Hannover production and reworks alone. This has limits, I can’t prove any of that, I can only go from what I’ve be observed.
