L/18 Marked EK1

[Harry]

Anyone out there have a EKI with L/18 mark, if so I would be grateful if you could post some photos

[George Stimson]

I'd like to see some, too. The screwback example I have does not have the core I would expect to see on a Mayer, and indeed it appears that the frame has been taken apart and reassembled at some point in time.

[Dietrich Maerz]

Harry,

here you go.

Dietrich

[Dietrich Maerz]

The marking

[Dietrich Maerz]

Full reverse

[Harry]

Thanks, just what I am looking for. I have this cross, which I have shown before some time ago. It is a private puchase cross, personalised by the Uniform Outfitter it was bought from....

[Harry]

reverse..

[Harry]

mark..

[Harry]

...

[George Stimson]

Dietrich, the back and frame of my "L/18" screwback match yours perfectly. But I think that the core on mine might have been replaced. (The cross has surely been opened up and reclosed.) What do you (or anyone else) think?

[meriksson]

George can that core have come from a S&L.
Mikael

[StefanK.]

i have the theory that deumer supplied b.h. mayer with cores and frames nearlly the whole war. only in the very first months (?) b.h. mayer produced cores and frames themself. i think so because there some EK1 as well as EK2 mm L/18 that do not match with the "typical" b.h. mayer EK - that indeed matches deumers 100%. these "very early" L/18 ek have a core similar to steinhauer. maybe your cross is a "mixture" of the old and the new production???

have anyone ever seen such a "early" L/18 EK?


stefan

[George Stimson]

Here's the reverse of mine.

[George Stimson]

And here's a closer look at the maker mark. (I'll check the core against my S&Ls....)

[Oleg]

Hi! I bought this L/18 some time ago. After arrival I can make a good pics.