Thanks Greg. I can't say on the seller. I asked and he supplied. But the proofmarks do give insight into the sourcing of Otto Bock and I think the same applies to all other suppliers/makers in Berlin. And it validates the claim that for the most part all suppliers/firearms merchants sourced the centers of gunmaking, i.e. Suhl/Zella-Mehlis & Liege with a smaller emphasis on Vienna & Weipert, where there was a high concentration of the most talented craftsmen on the continent, if not the world(may have some opposition here). Just a fact of economics. After the Germans, and other Europeans, got over the urge to be exactly like the Brits in the 1870s & 1880s, home or in country sourcing became the norm which ran parallel to the advent of mechanization.
Kind Regards,
Raimey
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