I have a boxlock marked Louis Delp who was a Hessian gunsmith. The Delp guns I found on the web were hammer guns and my gun looks like a pre-WWI Prussian gun, but it was proofed in 1949 in Belgium. Members of the German gun collectors organization speculate that its a Belgium gun made for the German market. I think its a German gun made post-WW2 proofed in Belgium when the German proof house had not yet reopened. Belgium proofs were legal in Germany and this might have been the only way for a German maker to restart sales. Has anyone else seen a German gun of that era with Belgium proofs? Pics of my gun are at:
Louis Delp
