Are there any broomhandle experts in this august gathering? A recent purchase of a 'Red 9' also included a stock. The pistol also has a unit marking and '1920' probably put on at the same time. The stock doesn't look like a Mauser stock. The hinge has six wood screws, three on each half of the hinge, while Mauser stocks have three bolts on the base and two on the lid, attached to round, knurled nuts. It lacks the leaf spring in the lid that is supposed to keep the gun from rattling (no screw holes for attachment of a spring, either). The attaching iron is of different construction and is unnumbered. The wood appears to be beech while Mauser stocks are walnut. The wood is varnished, and only partly varnished on the inside. The stock also difffers from a Chinese stock I have. I'm wondering if it was made, possibly for commercial sale, by some company other than Mauser, during the post-WWI period. Anyone seen anything like this? Any enlightenment as to when it was made or for what purpose (commercial sale, military, etc), or why Mauser couldn't have supplied stocks?

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