Background

Barrel Group

Barrel	type 2B	Inland Mfg. Div. 11-43
Front Sight	type 1	QJ (O.D. Jennings Co. for Quality Hardware)
Barrel Band	type 1A	UI on band, unmarked swivel (Union Hardware Co. for Quality Hardware)
Barrel Skirt	type 2	short skirt
Slide	type 4	"2" "UN-Q" (Union Switch & Signal Corp. for Quality Hardware

Quality Hardware obtained all of it's barrels from the government free-issue program. There is a "J" stamped on the top of the chamber just in front on the receiver. There are two "P" firing proofs, one about 2 inches infront of the gas port, the other about three inches infront on the handguard. No receiver digits on slide. Barrel has no import mark.

Stock Group

Stock	type 2	"Q-RMC" with cross cannons (Rock-Ola for Quality Hardware)
Handguard	type 2	RMC (Rock-Ola)
Buttplate		Quality Hardware

No receiver digits on stock or handguard

Receiver Group

Receiver		Quality H.M.C.
Rear Sight	type 1	"GE-Q" on rt. "S" on lft. (Gerrard Co. of Chicago for Quality Hardware)
Operating Spring Tunnel Housing	type 2	Q (Quality Hardware)
Recoil Plate	type 3	"RO-Q" (H.B. Rouse & Co. of Chicago for Quality Hardware)

"Bavaria Rural Police" milled in top of receiver along left side by bolt.

Bolt Group

Bolt	type 2	"UN-Q" (Union Switch & Signal Corp. for Quality Hardware)
Ejector	type 1
Extractor	type 3	"ST-Q" (Sterling Tool Products Inc. of Chicago for Quality Hardware)
Extractor Plunger	type 2
Firing Pin	type 1	"N-Q" (Nolan Machine Co. for Quality Hardware)

Bolt is blued, does not have digits from receiver.

Trigger Group

Trigger Housing	type 3	"NL-Q" (National Lock Co. of Rockford, IL for Quality Hardware)
Trigger	type 2	"LT-Q" (Ludlow Typograph Co. of Chicago for Quality Hardware)
Sear	type 1	"GE-Q" (Gerrard Co. of Chicago for Quality Hardware)
Hammer	type 3	"LT-Q" (Ludlow Typograph Co. for Quality Hardware)
Trigger Spring	type
Trigger Housing Pin	type 2
Safety	type 3	unmarked
Magazine Catch	type 2A	"EP-Q" (Eaton Pond Co. of Springfield, MA for Quality Hardware)
Magazine Catch Plunger	type

Hammer and hammer strut is in the white. No digits of receiver serial number on trigger housing.

Additional Information

The bolt, ejector, firing pin, front sight, trigger housing and sear are not the correct years as called for in Riesch's book, but the serial number sequences are close on most of the parts and the finishes and wear patterns match.