Silver DKG S&L marked 4, Thoughts please?

[AZartman]

I took new and better photos with my new lighting kit that I hope will allow the knowledgable collectors here a better chance to evaluate this item. If additional photos are needed of specific spots please advise and I will post them.

It features the square wire stock S&L customarily used on wartime and early postwar 57s.

I just got through this thread started by Yuri..and my head is spinning. Maybe mine will be dismissed outright, which is fine, or maybe it will add to the debate? I know several collectors have expressed interest in it. I do not have a digital scale nor a digital caliper so I cannot provide good measurements at the moment.

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...ht=dkig+makers

So here I go.

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Sorry my hand was shaking a little bit. I haven't got the tripod thing figured out

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I await your verdict.

[Darrell]

As far as I know the jury's still out on these. 1/2 believe pre-45, 1/2 believe post-45

[Cook]

Yes it is beautiful S&L,but nobody can tell when it has been made. My opinion is the period the end 44 beginning 45 years.

[Luftm40]

When you consider that SL made 39 RKs in the eary post war period, maker marked and only differing fm their wartime counterparts in small details, I would cut a wide path around this piece. The trick is to find one of these w/ air tight wartime provenance for comparison (if SL actually made these during the war at all..they were a large, prolific firm so I don't see why not)