How to ID your Luger - Jan C. Still Lugerforums Yes, #4734 would be the serial number of the Luger There would be many Luger produced with that serial number so 4734 would not be enough to narrow it down You would need the Luger's date, manufacturer, and letter suffix to find the exact gun
Useful Proof marks guide. | Jan C. Still Lugerforums The more rare a Luger, the more opportunity for fraud and fakery The Goeff Sturgess and Joachim Goertz book on the Borchardt and Luger Automatic Pistols continues to amaze me as one of the most thoroughly researched historically documented study of any single topic It's expensive and worth every pfennig
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LUGER RECEIVER ACCEPTANCE STAMPS - Jan C. Still Lugerforums LUGER, RECEIVER INSPECTION STAMPS Note: as used in this text, inspection and acceptance stamps are the same thing Individual Imperial German military pistols were inspected during or just after the manufacturing process to determine if they complied with specifications for military use
1939 42 Luger Originality Thoughts? | Jan C. Still Lugerforums If you are looking for a 100% correct Luger without reservation as it being original and not messed with, I would have second thoughts on this luger Yet there are Lugers that come out of the woodwork that everyone believes are not correct and as it turns out they are The 1939 S 42 Luger, fewer were produced, approx 38,500
Luger P08 a gift with a story help in verifying Your Luger started life as a 1917 (WW1) artillery Luger It was later depot reworked and received a short barrel and saw use in WW2 It was not chromed by the Germans while in use in either war Your father in law either had it chromed overseas for a pack of smokes before he came home or had it chromed in the states when he got back
GERMANY import stamps | Jan C. Still Lugerforums I have a 1915 DWM military P 08 that's stamped "GERMANY" on the lefthand side of the frame As I understand it, the "GERMANY" stamp on so many of the commercial P 08s was one required by the US government for pistols imported into the US through the inter-war years I presume the same goes