Made by Lemcke but known as Meybauer?

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Hi Gent,
Wanted to start this discussion for a long time since I read this info by Nimmergut (it's a part of his article about Reuss KVK). Approximate/partly translation is here (some ppl with good German language skills may post exact version, you're welcome):

"...He (Lemcke) died in 1920. During the next year his widow sold the company to Paul Meybauer firm which situated at the same house.
During his lifetime, Lemcke made dies, engravings and numerous assemblies/parts
for Meybauer who sold all products under his name and marked by his maker mark PM or P.M."

So the question is: how many items which are not maker marked but assembled and look as they are produced by Meybauer in fact are made by Lemcke company? We used to call them Meybauer but they are, most probably, not.

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Another interesting conclusion coming out of these facts and binding them together might also help us to shed some light on mysterious Dep maker mark which is occasionally met on different items, mostly miniatures.

In the following thread http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...&highlight=Dep you can see two of these minis, one with Dep mark and one without, but both similar in design. In the same thread you can see catalogue parts posted by Kay showing almost identical images. The catalogue belongs to Lemcke (Kay confirmed this to me), so most possibly these items were produced by Lemcke, weren't they? But. As a Freikorps collector I met this Dep mark on items which were unquestionably made by Meybauer or maker marked by him, and are of 1921+ years origin.
First of all it confirms Nimmergut article/connections , and also discovers Meybauer as a production company behind these Dep marks IMO.
Here is one of the items with both marks. Unfortunately I have no permission to post another one, I will just confirm that it's one of the latest Freikorps awards (established in 1921). The order to produce it was placed to Meybauer company by FK commander who told these details to Klietmann.

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For those of you guys who are too lazy to visit links, and to keep all the information in one place--here are catalogue parts and Dep marked mini from the thread I mentioned in the 1st post.

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Lemcke catalog...

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Very interesting.
I had always thought that the Dep mark was more of a mark similar to the DRGM.

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Thanx Greg!
Hmmm..not much of an interest, Gents? Or are these well-known facts? Or is it really annoying to realize that your favorite Meybauer badge was produced by Lemcke?