Well, when the German firearms merchant wanted to really increase his profit margin, he would order from the talented mechanics in Liège, but most of the time he would ask that the marks be hidden or worn so that the end user couldn't discern if the firearms merchant of record actually made it or not. Too, reciprocity played a large part on whether the
Belgians marks were present or not. But all run of the mill barrels of German steel were sourced as rough bored tubes from Liège. Actually the German steel makers granted a license to Belgian steel makers in the area to make bar stock from a German steel recipe. Even Sauer sought trademark protection in Belgium. But almost always you wouldn't find a German firearms merchant to order a Belgian platform with Belgian inland steel. That is the reason that E. Kuntze had the Cockrell Steel noted as Stahl. Just part of the overall grand deception to increase the Benjamins.
Yeah, the ledger is probably somewhere unless it was donated on a paper drive or similar? If it survived, with Leipzig being behind the iron curtain, the mentality is the >>what's in it for me<< mode.
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