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The gun is a post-war (Eckernforde) JP Sauer & Sohn Model 54 BBF. I'm trying to determine its age. From what I gather so far from the interweb, it was proofed at Kiel between 1951-1971. Could the year be as obvious as 1959?   
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USAF RET 1971-95 ![[Linked Image from jpgbox.com]](http://www.jpgbox.com/jpg/57865_80x60.jpg)
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Thanks GW and SX. It was the PMT site and a couple others which took me as far as I was able to get. Can't find that third digit anywhere on the limited surface area of the O/U "flats". But 59 would seem to fit as the year, as the digits are in the right location and they fit within the proof mark and production time spans.
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59 is the year as the month was "usually" applied by not required. Required marks were the Eagle w/ appropriate character/letter, mark of the proof facility(Eckernförde as Oak leaf from 1952) & the year of proof, sometimes w/ the month. I believe it was 1968 that saw the use of characters for the year. Also me thinks Eckernförde was a satellite stamping station & Ford has some additional info.
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I think Eckernfoerde had it's own mark. The proof house at Melrichstadt(?) was a satellite of Munich and used Munich's mark.
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Indeed Ford, that's for which I was searching. Wasn't it in either Ostheim or Mellrichstadt(Bavarian portion of Germany) where you were pegged as of Bavarian origin? Was the proof facility within Heym's umbrella?
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"In Schleswig-Holstein gehört das Beschusswesen zum Geschäftsbereich der Eichdirektion
Nord in Kiel mit der Beschussstelle Eckernförde.
Weitere Beschussämter gibt es in Baden-Württemberg (Ulm), Bayern (München und
Mellrichstadt), Niedersachsen (Hannover), Nordrhein-Westfalen (Köln) und Thüringen
(Suhl). "
Oh, I now see that Eckernförde was a satellite stamping station.
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Raimey,
The proof house wasn't under Heym, but it did proof their guns, among other makers.
Mike
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