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Did Gun Digest (or anybody else) publish a collection of the Proof Mark articles that were in the 50s and 60s Gun Digests? They were mostly written by Baron Engelhardt.

Here are the Gun Digest articles by Lee Kennett for proof marks:
22nd Edition Czechoslovakia -1968
23rd Edition Austria Hungary & Austria - 1969
24th Edition France - 1970
25th Edition Spain -1971
26th Edition Italy - 1972
27th Edition Hungary - 1973
28th Edition Russia - 1974
29th Edition Germany -1975
30th Edition Military - 1976
31st Edition England - 1977
32nd Edition Belgium - 1978
33rd Edition India -1979

There was some talk in the articles about a book or collection, but it never seemed to happen. If there were other articles by a different author in Gun Digest, I am not aware of them. Hopefully some one will have more information.

You can usually pick these Gun Digests up on eBay for a few dollars each, plus shipping.

You should be aware these articles, while very good are somewhat dated. He did them mostly in 70's. Some of the eastern European information is limited. None of the articles has any date codes, if I recall correctly. Also the subject of makers marks (trade marks) is never touched.

Pete

Gun Digest Treasury Fifteen Years

The 15 yr Treasury contains 9 articles by A Baron Engehardt published throughout the 50's. The ones mentioned by Kennett are, as noted later. Both are good, if you can find a copy of the Treasury that puts all those in one handy volume. The ones by Kennet will have a few rules which were passed between times.

Thanks Guys!

I better hurry over to ebay before anything with the letters G, U, or N is banned.

I have both the Kennett articles and the Treasury. The latter is great, with significant detail, but very dated. The British chapter, for example, ends with the 1925 Rules of Proof.

Somebody needs to do a complete update, to include the post-Kennett changes.

Yeti:

I have copies of all of the Engelhardt and Kennett articles on proof marks from Gun Digest. I'd be willing to send you a copy of them for the cost of postage. E-mail me a notdisclosed 7 2 3 at hotmail dot com (take out the spaces and substitute the usual symbols for at and dot).

Rem

Very generous! If I can't track down the 15th Treasury during the next couple of weeks I'll take you up on the offer.
Thanks

L. Brown,
The last article of the Englehardt series on Proof is Chapter X English Proof 1925-54 and is in the 1962 Gun Digest. The 15 year Treasury + '62 provide the whole magilla.

These old Gun Digests are all new reading for me, and at 2 or 3 bucks apiece, irresistable.

Yeti, thanks! Kennett covers up through the 1954 changes in his article, and also provides some information on more recent changes in other European countries. Those, along with the Engelhardt series in the Treasury, are about as good as it gets. However, even the Kennett articles miss the most recent changes--like those in England, post-1989.