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Kuduae, when you say they all bear German proof marks, were they still proof marked "NPv" Or were Steyr given a special German mark like a stag's antler and etc., used by German proof houses?
Also, I'm thinking particularly of existing inventory on-hand from before the Anschluss, would this be over-stamped afterwards and have 2 sets of marks? I'm just wondering how it all worked in practise.
First, from 1938 to 1940, many had the Austrian, Vienna proofhouse NPv proofs. There was no need to overstamp them, as Austrian proofmarks were then valid in Germany too. From 1940 on the new German proof law applied too, so there had to be the spread eagle/N mark, the proof date and the proofhouse mark. The Vienna proofhouse with it's Steyr branch used the arms of Vienna City, a shield with a cross inside.
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