it has characteristics of late style MAB's with lettering like the Post war, but it uses German production pieces and its known to have been produced under German occupation, however, there are no waffenamts ! so they had to be produced during the regular production of German MAB's. This is just a theory of mine but I have seen this before with the L series French MAB-D's. so that by the time you get to the gun you mentioned the OP posted it was after the time where break in the new style"FÉMÁRU" was used. then in 1938 gun C101 to say C250 and so on. there could be a break in manufacture that say gun C1 to 100 was made in 1937. The guns, while being sequential in number< does not mean they were made at the same time BUT just made for a contract one after another. so it raises the question, if the first C-prefix were indeed all early guns why the change in spelling in them? my theory is, assume the C-prefix and circle E acceptance is for "a home guard" use. However, the first regular production M37's contain the early spelling and the spelling was changed around serial 22,000. The first C-prefix guns interestingly, have a mix of the two spellings. And yes, I did notice you had the different spelling of "FÉMÁRÚ" that was/is the early style. either way you have an early M37, or prototype. That could also explain the C-prefix that shows up in the beginning of production for the M37 and then the very end after the German contracts were used up as those 6 digit C prefix were wartime guns. So could it be a mark for say a home guard rather national military use and therefore didn't have the regular BP/crown? possibly. You are correct, where the mark shows up more on the rifles than the pistols. It is difficult to say exactly what or why, but I do feel it falls into the category of a separate military acceptance mark. Dave, while others may disagree, I feel the the E is simply for "Elfogadva" which would be "acceptance" in English.
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