Does Anyone Else Have A Brass or L/19 EK1?

[Chris Taylor]

I've had this one for a while now, but was just looking at it again & wondering if anybody else has a Brass Core, Ferdinand Hoffstätter, Bonn, L/19 marked EK1.
If you do lets see 'em.

For that matter, I'd love to see any L/19's or Brass Core EK's from other makers.

Here's mine....

[Chris Taylor]

Here's the back....

[Chris Taylor]

Catch....

[George Stimson]

Here are some old pictures of mine.

[Sebastian Bianchi]

Here is mine...

[Sebastian Bianchi]

As you might be able to tell, the core above looks like it was touched up at one point.

[Sebastian Bianchi]

As you might be able to tell, the core above looks like it was touched up at one point.

pin down.

[George Stimson]

Here's the maker's mark on mine.

[Chris Taylor]

Very cool guys, thanks.

Sebastian- mine looks like it's been touched up too.

I grew up working on boats with plenty of brass on them, and you have a hell of a time getting paint to stick to it for very long, it'll just scape or rub right off.

I wonder what it was about this maker that made them use brass as their core metal?

Has anyone seen or do they have an L/19 that dosen't have a Brass Core?

[Jan Arne S]

Hi Chris !
Here is my L/19 with unmagnetic senter .

Jan Arne

[Jan Arne S]

Back of L/19 EK 1

Jan Arne

[Chris Taylor]

Very nice one Jan Arne.

Does it look to be a brass core?
I see a little gold peaking through on the "3" in the date.

[George Stimson]

What's interesting to me is that while the cores of all of the examples posted by you gentlemen appear to be brass, mine is tarnishing to a blue color, almost like it was copper.

[Chris Taylor]

George-

That does look like the way copper turns green, but I'd think copper would be to soft to use.

So, I would guess Bill is right, probably more copper than zinc in the alloy mix.

[Robert P.]

Indeed it does have copper in the core, as both yellow and red brass have a large amount of copper in them, red brass having the most and is less expensive to produce.

Learned these secrets from working around machinists.

Robert