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Originally Posted by sheepdawg
Here's my 1916 DWM that my dad bought with a German m40 helmet and 60 rounds of German ammo for $100 around 1960. Hpw the "black widow" grips got on it is anyone's guess but the guys over at the Luger forum said they were real and offered me some serious coin for them. Came with a 1937 Hans Romer holster and two non matching magazines. I shoot it occasionally.
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Before Ralph Shattuck invented the "black widow" Lugers
no one cared much for the black grip panels and many were ditched. As a matter of fact. I got offered the black grips present on my byf 41 by a friend who has a Portuguese contract byf 42 and never liked the black grips.
