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Markings on a Polish bolt from my Gew.98M. Who can deciffer?

Dane76

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I disassembled the bolt on my Gew.98M Spandau 1917/24. The bolt has a Polish stamp on the handle, but it also has, what I believe is a Prussian stamp on the firing pin. Can someone tell me, what these markings mean, and if the stamp is Prussian, does it mean, that the bolt was put in the gun by the Germans, when they assembled the rifle in 1924? Thank you.
 

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Looks like a Wz.29 bolt that had its serial number on the stem scrubbed off? The little hieroglyphics are just Polish “lucky charm” proofmarks made during production. There is no decoder ring for them sadly.
 
Looks like a Wz.29 bolt that had its serial number on the stem scrubbed off? The little hieroglyphics are just Polish “lucky charm” proofmarks made during production. There is no decoder ring for them sadly.
Thank you. 👍
Is the top one with the Crown also Polish, and if so can you tell me what gothic letter it is?
 
The top one with a crown is an Imperial inspection mark. The letter beneath the crown indicates the inspection team that inspected that part. When the Poles first started building Mausers post WWl, they had access to some amount of left over Imperial German parts and often incorporated them in their own production.
 
The top one with a crown is an Imperial inspection mark. The letter beneath the crown indicates the inspection team that inspected that part. When the Poles first started building Mausers post WWl, they had access to some amount of left over Imperial German parts and often incorporated them in their own production.
So just to be clear. The firing pin is initially from Imperial Germany, but used in a Polish bolt?
 
Yep, the firing pin does look to be originally German production, but (now I could be wrong), it does look like it has Polish "lucky charms" on it?
 

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