This is a newbie question so sorry if this questions is simple.
I recently purchased a mail order Gurttrommel and was told it had wartime markings.
I have now got it and it does indeed have markings h.q.u and 43. I understand this to mean it was made in 1943 by Markes & Co., K.-G., Metallwarenfabrik u. Apparatebau, Luedenscheid.
However, the makers code and date are not in the same typeset or font. Nor do they have the same depth to the letter strikes.
Was/is this normal?
Or is this a postwar drum that has been made up to look wartime?
I only ask because, in reading other threads there are cases of things been restamped to get numbers etc. matching.
Am I just being overly suspicious?
TIA fro any replies.
I recently purchased a mail order Gurttrommel and was told it had wartime markings.
I have now got it and it does indeed have markings h.q.u and 43. I understand this to mean it was made in 1943 by Markes & Co., K.-G., Metallwarenfabrik u. Apparatebau, Luedenscheid.
However, the makers code and date are not in the same typeset or font. Nor do they have the same depth to the letter strikes.
Was/is this normal?
Or is this a postwar drum that has been made up to look wartime?
I only ask because, in reading other threads there are cases of things been restamped to get numbers etc. matching.
Am I just being overly suspicious?
TIA fro any replies.
Being overly suspicious will help you spend your money wisely and on the real item.
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