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"dkp" - German brand code to be identified

The Lieutenant

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Code present on a Teller 42.
43dkp.jpg

I seem to read "43 dkp" but if this is the code I can't find it in my lists.
Has anyone already met it or knows the corresponding producer?
Thanks, folks
 
Here you are

dkp - Hagenuk Hanseatische Apparatebau Ges. Neufeldt & Kuhnke GmbH, Berlin - Tempelhof

Regards Chris
 
It’s amazing that members can provide such great info. Has a similar exercise been conducted for WWI Imperial German manufacturers?

Mark
 
For WW2 codes there are several lists available. A few missing stamps were decoded through research and some late war codes are still unknown. The first of these lists was published by Karl Pawlas. It was a 1:1 copy of an archive document. It's also available online on many websites.

WW1 manufacturer stamps were simple abbreviations or monograms. But they are much more difficult to decode because other than for 2nd WW codes no lists seems to have survived in the archives. But they have a lot of correspondence between war ministry institutions and factories but those letters are almost never mentioning the stamps on the product.

I am researching this thematic since about 10 years now but mostly for artillery shells, fuzes and cases. When I found any list it either contained the abbreviations or the full factory names but almost never both together. So a lot of factories which did ordnance manufacturing are known but it's hard to join the abbreviations/monograms to them. Searching the web for pictures brings up the same stuff since years so my research is progressing very slowly compared to the time when I started...
 
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