Possible SS identified K98

As already mentioned, it is an extremely important topic and here is an excerpt from April 15, 1944 from the Speer office:

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The Heer and RdL u. ObdL departments responsible for the procurement of fire equipment are authorized to place orders for fire equipment under the preferential Wehrmacht order number SS 4928 and in addition, to mark all orders with the following note:

"According to the order of the RM.f.R.u.K., orders with the preferential Wehrmacht order number SS 4928 are to be processed preferentially within Group I of the priority sequence, but they rank after fighter (plane) production and the supplies to it."
 
mauser202 said:
Really interesting thoughts and documentation. Would the SS number for very fast be written with the SS runes?
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Almost certainly not. I think Stephan's idea is interesting, but I seriously doubt this is some sort of economic priority number. Wouldn't make much sense to mark an individual rifle or stock.

This is just graffiti, period or not.
 
Stephan98k said:
As already mentioned, it is an extremely important topic and here is an excerpt from April 15, 1944 from the Speer office:

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The Heer and RdL u. ObdL departments responsible for the procurement of fire equipment are authorized to place orders for fire equipment under the preferential Wehrmacht order number SS 4928 and in addition, to mark all orders with the following note:

"According to the order of the RM.f.R.u.K., orders with the preferential Wehrmacht order number SS 4928 are to be processed preferentially within Group I of the priority sequence, but they rank after fighter (plane) production and the supplies to it."
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A couple of things I see:
SS 4928 is from 1944. Assuming that the numbers were sequential - and with the Germans they certainly were - how did it take from 1939-1944 to reach 4928, and then somehow they managed to make it to 472899 before the war ended a year later? Doubtful. (Ignoring that the rifle is from 1941…. Which would date the rifle from before the number).

If the numbers were some sort of standard practice or representing an organized program - and there were a half a million of them - we’d have seen another one of these by now. At this point, this is the only example. That doesn’t make sense.

Does that mean it’s an SS number? I don’t know. But I don’t think it’s one of the order numbers.
 
I’m more inclined to believe that it is German, either an SS service number or manufacturing code as Stephan noted. If the thing is out the woodwork and was not advertised or carnie barked or marked up as “SS” then why? A huckster would carnie pimp it in a more overt way to snag a trinketwhore with more money than sense. IMHO
 
I've never seen Germans write their 7's and 9's like we do. Their sevens have a line through them and their 9's look like the letter "g".
 
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