EK 1-1914 With double marks.

[JCM - 1963]

First of all say that my English is very poor and I have to help a translator online by what if a Word is incorrect I apologise in advance.

Recently I bought a EK 1 - 1914 magnificent and my surprise is that you have two marks :

On the reverse side next to the insert has the WS mark, which I already have identified that belongs to the manufacturer Wagner & Sohn - Berlin, but also has another mark at the base of the needle, and this is an inverted R and I don't know that it means this mark.

Someone I could inform does mean and when that may correspond, this double marks?

The photographs are of poor quality, but fail to make a better picture.



Thank you very much.

[gregM]

Hi--Welcome to the forum.
Many of us believr that these small marks were used as a form
of quality control by the manufacture.

[Don D.]

I've often wondered about that Greg. Why would a quality control stamp be required, especially if the item is maker marked? Another possibility is that the hardware was outsourced from a supplier and these markings are the maker mark of that manufacturer.

Just food for thought.

[JCM - 1963]

Thank you for the feedback, I initially also I thought the needle and the cross make them different manufacturers and the ultimate cross one finally ended, but had not referred to the possibility of quality, control I much sought information on this matter but I have not found anything.

This double marking was also given in other manufactured to WS?

Here a photograph of my modest and small collection.



Thank you for the welcome and greetings from Madrid.

[Don D.]

Nice collection and very tastefully displayed.

[gregM]

Very nice display. Well done

Don,
It could very well be a manufactures code for the parts used or
I have thought that different workers may have different codes and
if there were a problem with a cross, the manufacture which worker
assembled the cross.