HerrWolfsberg
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I can't see the HV stamps being just pure repair/overhaul stamps. All the newly produced firearms of the Bundesheer had them - the M.Pi. M.34 SMGs, the M.30 S machine guns, they all had them, as did various other pieces of army equipment - lamps, instruments etc. My understanding is that the HV was an acceptance stamp that has been added to the items once they became army property, or once they have undergone some sort of a conversion or transformation (such as an M.95 Stutzen becoming an M.95/30).
Regarding the deliveries to Czechoslovakia, they were regular commercial orders. They came even before the Treaty of St. Germain has been signed.
Regarding the "hidden" weapons, I find that hard to believe given the case of the "+" series of M12 pistols. They really were produced clandestinely, but they still got acceptance stamps. Just the obsolete ones. The only newly made guns without acceptance stamps were either the commercial ones (they still would have had commercial Nitro proofs) and the Gendarmerie contract from the 1930's - but these were not army guns.
Regarding the deliveries to Czechoslovakia, they were regular commercial orders. They came even before the Treaty of St. Germain has been signed.
Regarding the "hidden" weapons, I find that hard to believe given the case of the "+" series of M12 pistols. They really were produced clandestinely, but they still got acceptance stamps. Just the obsolete ones. The only newly made guns without acceptance stamps were either the commercial ones (they still would have had commercial Nitro proofs) and the Gendarmerie contract from the 1930's - but these were not army guns.