German pertrix flashlight help!

[mauser1898k]

Look at this link, to find a picture of the flashlight:

http://www.netlabor.hu/roncskutatas/...d=12186&cid=75

Hi all of you from hungary!

I just got this pertrix flashlight. The saler said it is 100% wartime flashlight, but i have doubts.

Please help me: This is a prewar, wartime, or post war (BGS, Bundeswehr) flashlight?
I'm 90% sure this is a WWII flashlight, because it has the manufacturer's name (pertrix), but missing the "made in germany".

In hungary most of my friends said that, if there are "columns" between slides of the lenses then it is a post war lamp.

But i saw wartime daimon flashlight with "columns".
And the most important: it has a wh eagle, and No. inks stemp. This isn't fake?

Sorry my awful english, but please help!

[CWP]

The stamp is fake, in my opinion. I am not sure when the flashlight was made.

[mauser1898k]

The stamp is fake, in my opinion. I am not sure when the flashlight was made.

The military flashlights were stamped in the WWII?
Or the lights never had stamp like this?


greet: mauser1898k from hungary

[CWP]

I don't think any flashlights were stamped this way 1933-45. I have some period civilian or private purchase lights and at least one military issue example. I have never seen a real stamp like this. I did see some wartime civilian flashlights that had a similar stamp added to make them more desirable. The stamp has no WaA underneath, it makes no sense to me.

By the way your English is great!

[Soldat de Fer]

Hello

The only WAamt on flashlights I have seen were on the "Zeiler" made of bakelite
If you have such a flashlight in your collection ,I invite you to take a look at it.
Regards
Pierre-Yves

[zeugmeister]

Yes, that`s right, I have several Flashlights, and the only one with a Stamp ( WaA ) is a Bakelite Zeiler,

Regards

Dirk

[mauser1898k]

So the stamp fake, but what about the age?

Hi all!

The stamp was suspicious for me too, but i still dont know is this flashlight was made in wartime, or not.

De postwar lights doesnt have "pertrix sign".
Please help to find out when this flashlight made!

I dont have zeiler flashlight, sorry! :-(

by: mauser


thanks for the answers!

[Soldat de Fer]

Hello Again

I believe that the flashlight is a good one ,very similar to the "Daimon " brand.
I am not really sure about the WAamt ,but it does look OK from these pictures.
Best Regards
Pierre-Yves