Thanks to skeettx for your research. You may well be right. I had found this same proof info before I posted. You said "the gun is probably one of many made in Liege and signed by a German salesperson." Is this a guess or do you know examples of these guns. The rib of my gun says Louis Delp Hofbuchsenmacher Darmstadt which I understand to mean Louis Delp, gunmaker to royalty, Darmstadt which is a city in Hesse, Germany. As far as I know the German proof office didn't reopen until 1952. I don't know much else about the status of gunmaking in Belgium and Germany in the years right after WW2. My puzzle is that this gun seems to be a proper German gun with the wrong proof marks. Does anyone know of similar examples from the same era? Thanks.
