Originally Posted By: Chuck H
Did you find any information on the depression years and how that might have affected importation vs. home grown?


I've found some but A.H. Fox's spooling up to make rifle barrels and the lack of foreign sources during WWI forcing American steel conglomerates to become sources really complicates things along with the impact of WWI. Just like my thought of just trying to learn only about pre-WWI German proofmarks when there's post-WWI, during WWII when Germany expanded their proofhouses, and post WWII.

DaveK:

I still have it on my "to read" list but haven't progressed much.

Kind Regards,

Raimey
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