ID unmarked EK2?

[mathiass]

Hi guys.

I wonder if it is possible to ID a EK2 that Ive got?
If so, what distinguish it from other EK2, that makes you able to tell?

I just have one photo of it for now, I can take a photo of the back too if needed.

http://s23.postimg.org/knqe25kzf/ek2.jpg

Thanks
Mathiass

[plaut]

From this photo it looks like -'24' but to be sure please show bigger photo.

[mathiass]

From this photo it looks like -'24' but to be sure please show bigger photo.

Thank you for trying.
Here is another two photos.

Front: http://s18.postimg.org/xcbi0716h/P1010505.jpg
Back: http://s8.postimg.org/bhoolszdh/P1010506.jpg

[Douglas 5]

Larger pictures that should help .

Douglas

[fabri-online]

Probably an original Rettenmaier... but ! it's not the typical wartime ! in my opinion it 's a postwar product. Few examples can be found with the original wartime ring marked 16.

[mathiass]

Probably an original Rettenmaier... but ! it's not the typical wartime ! in my opinion it 's a postwar product. Few examples can be found with the original wartime ring marked 16.

Does this mean that numbered rings on EK2 is wartime, and all that does not have a numbered ring - are postwar?

[fabri-online]

Does this mean that numbered rings on EK2 is wartime, and all that does not have a numbered ring - are postwar?

yes, original rings. Rest or part of the rest are postwar. Not strange, more or less it happened with Deumer too, Steinhauer & Luck, Klein & Quenzer..

[Douglas 5]

Looks like a typical original war time Rettenmaier to me .
Generally speaking there are far more original - unmarked - war time crosses than there are marked ones .

Douglas

[mathiass]

Thanks for your opinion guys.

What makes you believe its a unmarked 16? What characteristics does it have?

Regards
mathiass

[Douglas 5]

I have the same one marked .

Douglas

[Douglas 5]

It is the chip in this corner which I seam to see on yours - quit small - and sometimes larger on others , as well on L59 pieces .

Douglas

[Woolgar]

Here is my marked 16

Pics are not good so will tyr and get some better ones

Nick

[Woolgar]

,,,,

[Douglas 5]

The mark 16 on mine .

Douglas

[Tony T-S]

Why have the inner beading corners of the rear frame been filed to fit a swaz?