The Kriegsmarine frog is mine and I�m not immune to being fooled. But I have had the frog for a number of years and honestly believe that it�s wartime not postwar. I have no idea what the significance of the �Ki� marking is but don�t particularly associate it with Kiel. From its appearance up very close, smell (or lack of it), etc. it still leaves me unable to find physical evidence that it�s anything but wartime manufacture. And while it has the flat/hollow style rivets - so do other wartime frogs although they are much less common than those with the conventional ones.
Also - the Kriegsmarine markings, which would not normally be expected on late frogs, don�t trouble me any more than the late issue Kriegsmarine marked pocket pistols (etc.) do. (Caution here: I have seen faked KM frogs so a very close examination is needed.) My thinking being that after a long interval the Kriegsmarine was again specifically allocated hand weapons - presumably coinciding with the substantial reinforcing of German defenses for the Atlantic Wall - with the German Navy playing a key role. And I would also be very interested in seeing the non-navy version of the "Ki" frog Andy mentioned, for comparison purposes.
While we are
'dissing' frogs
what are the thoughts on the one posted below the late Kriegsmarine ?? FP
