2 GAB for review

[Thomas Durante]

Hi Ken,

Not sure what you are trying to show here because you are mixing up 3 different makers.

I agree that the hollow nickel silver/tombak P&L is the earliest. But as far as we know the line stops there for P&L since they lost their license.

Frank and Reif has no known hollow tombak or zinc GABs. For all we know, they started with solid, zinc production and that those are the marked ones you show (first solid back, then semi-hollow. Both marked).

As far as Schickle goes, they seem to follow P&L; first with a hollow NS/Tombak GAB. They switched to zinc hollow production, but it must have been very brief before they lost their license too in early 1941 because the zinc hollow Shickles are VERY RARE!.

It doesn't make any sense to me to put a hollow zinc Schickle after the solid zinc F&R. Not only are they different makers, but the production pattern doesn't follow convention (hollow tombak to hollow zinc to solid zinc).

Tom

[Panzercracker]

Just got back...

Tom, the last example is a hollowback (zinc based and late war), by Schickle --and I used it as an example, until someone comes up with it's F&R equivalent (you never know). Not trying to get 3 different makers confused here. My pictorial description demonstres where F&R took over where Petz and Lorenz left off. I know of no other GAB maker with this "dog head" type eagle and no cut-outs (grenade/bayo area), than these two makers.

--Ken

[Panzercracker]

So, it brings us back to this unmarked piece (one of the pair that started the thread). Where does she fit in this chain? It is unmarked, but has what appears to be a magnetic pin, and, a rectangular baseplate underneath the catch.