Variations in Winchester Hammer Markings

[Jersey Devil]

I examined the Winchester hammers in my collection and found the following variations:









Unfortunately I no longer have a Winchester hammer with the tooling hole in my collection (for educational order WRAs). I had two of them, believe it or not, and failed to keep the photos that I captured of them. They now reside in a friend's collection. If I find those images I will post them here. Until then, maybe someone else with that type of WRA hammer can post a photo of theirs.

Thought some folks would like to see these variations.
Cheers,
--Brian

[Jersey Devil]

I also found this example. I'm unsure whether it's a variation or an oddity.



Any information on this one, as well as the others in the previous posting, would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
---Brian

[Rick B]

Pretty sure the last one is a Fake Cast hammer. Rick B

http://imageshack.com/a/img905/4246/x5YJ7e.jpg

[m14brian]

Unfortunately I no longer have a Winchester hammer with the tooling hole in my collection (for educational order WRAs). I had two of them, believe it or not, and failed to keep the photos that I captured of them. They now reside in a friend's collection.

You could have him send you a couple pics.
m14brian

[MTC29]

Here is another WRA hammer variation; this one marked CM and which is supposed to have been used early in 1942:


I have drawers filled with the stuff...One of these days I actually need to sell some of it!

[RCS]

I had posted these photos under the S marked sear, this is still another variation of the Winchester hammer marked CM and with the early DuLite finish

[kevin h]

One from my bin. Appears to have never been parkerized.

[Bubba1]

Pretty interesting. They missed the drawing number . That is also an unusual font for the CM marking .

[GBA]

Funny, I was just going through my Springfield forged trigger guards. I'm thinning them out to sell. There are significant font variations in the same drawing number from part to part.

I don't think that at the time they were making these parts, that they were overly concerned with fonts.