Identifying an Inglis Hi-Power

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I recently acquired a Browning 9mm HP made by Inglis and am curious about the markings on it. The barrel has electropenciled crossed flags above the serial number. The slide and receiver both have crossed flags stamped on them but not with the same die. Neither stamping is 100%. The one on the slide has the letter C in the right quadrant of the flags and P in the bottom quadrant. The left quadrant is not readable. On the receiver the left quadrant shows the letter D and the other two are not readable. The receiver also has the arrow inside the letter C.
Any one know about these?
 
They are all explained in detail in Clive Law's or Blake Steven's book on the Browning Hi-Power pistol.. Buy a gun ...buy a book. You will never regret it
 
A cheaper alternative is the Historical Arms Series booklet no. 15: "The Inglis Browning Hi-Power Pistol" soft cover, 28 pages, by R. Blake Stevens. You can find it on flea bay for about 20~30$.

A good introduction if you are just curious.
 
Thanks everyone for you input. What I'm looking at are Canadian proofmarks not unit identification which I was hoping for. I'll be getting the books though; probably fascinating info.
 
Standard right-side markings on an Inglis No. 2 pistol -

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Most of the stamped marks on the right side of the slide and frame will be more or less incomplete, usually .....

The small C/Broadarrow (which is supposed to be a Canadian government acceptance/ownership mark) was placed on the right side of the frame on all Inglis pistols at time of manufacture, for some reason.

The crossed pennants mark is the "Dominion of Canada Proof" mark, and the initials in the three lower quadrants are 'D' (left), 'C'' (right), and 'P' (bottom) .... the table Timberlord linked to has it wrong. as 'D', 'P' and 'C' ....

Standard markings on left side of slide of Inglis No. 2 pistol -

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All of the above mentioned stamped markings on the right side, as well as the roll-impressed markings on the left side of the slide of the slide, were appliedd during the manufacturing process, and got covered by the parkerizing finish.

The crossed pennants mark electropenciled on the barrel is a simplified version to the Dominion of Canada Proof mark.

Inglis serial numbers were not applied until the pistol was assembled and completed, including the finish on slide and frame. The numbers were engraved in the three locations, one above the other, using a pantograph-type machine - thus the frame and slide serial numbers will be "in the white" (i.e. engraved through the finish into raw steel, as seen above) on a pistol which hasn't been refinished. Here is a photo of an Inglis worker engraving the serial numbers on a pistol -

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It is not common to see an Inglis pistol with any other C/Broadarrow mark besides the small one applied on the right side of the frame during manufacture. However, my No. 1 (i.e. CH-numbered) pistol is one of the relatively early-production pistols of that pattern which were diverted into Canadian military service (when it proved impossible to get the Chinese-contract pistols delivered to China past the Japanese blockade) and it was accordingly marked with a somewhat larger C/Broadarrow stamp on the left side of the slide at the rear -

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