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Originally Posted by Andyd
The so called Luger pistols.....
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Interesting point, by the way.
Poor Georg Luger, an Austrian, who developed the original design and the cartridge, didn’t get any respect in the country where most of the pistols were built.
Basically, nobody in Germany called the pistol a “Luger” until long after WW II, when English-language gun books were translated into German. It was the Parabellum pistol, Luger’s original name for it, and later simply the “Null-Acht” or zero-eight after its P-08 military designation.
But from early on, the Luger name became associated with the gun in the United States, and it was marketed as such.
Attached: Catalogs from 1910 (US; Abercrombie & Fitch) and 1912 (Germany; Stukenbrok).