And nobody knows what the O and the V mean either. Yes it is the stamp for the Trojan and those letters individually mean something... but what...?
And on the barrel flat it is stamped where we normally see the barrel steel mark, e.g. B = Bernard Steel, T = Titanic Steel, A = Acme Steel, D = Damascus Steel, DD = Finest Damascus Steel and so on...
Ordnance
Variety....?... likely not, but it re*resents something....
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