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[FrogMan]

http://www.bavarianm1carbines.com/Gendarmerie.html

The U.S. M1 Carbines: Arming the Gendarmerie
The headquarters for the Gendarmerie was located in Vienna. They maintained their own armory, separate from those of the Bundespolizei and Bundesheer. When the first 8000 U.S. M1 carbines were turned over to the Gendarmerie by the Bundesheer in 1955/56, they were transferred to the Gendarmerie armory in Vienna. When the decision was made as to how many carbines would be issued to the Gendarmerie of a particular Austrian Land (State), the armorers in Vienna stamped the letters of the Land Gendarmerie Command (LGK) on the bottom of the trigger housing. along with a four digit number. Collectively, these letters and numbers became the Gendarmerie inventory number for each carbine (ie. LGK B for the Landes Gendarmerie Kommando of Burgenland).

I also found on mine that they stamped a the serial on the oprod and electroplated it on the bolt have you found more examples of them serials, must have driven a OCD German armorer crazy that these were not "correctly" marked when they came in

 

[cimino289]

Now that's a cool carbine