Let’s see your Luger(s) and share what we know about them
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This has really been interesting researching my pistol. I thought at best I just had an orordinary garden variety Luger. Turns out it is an original Black Widow with 2 correct magazines and correct dated holster.
The one thing that didn’t seem correct is the 41 marked receiver with double 135 proof marks. Well until I found a reference on Legacy-collectibles. On their site the showed my exact gun with double Eagle 135 proof marks but had an aluminum button magazine instead of the black Bakelite magazines I have.
In further researching the guns with double 135 proofs were in a transition period when the inspector 655 was replaced by inspector 135. Being at the end of the year would also explain why my gun is an (a) suffix SN. Most likely the factory went through the alphabet and then started repeating the suffix code which was normal as I understand.
The Legacy gun only had 1 magazine and no holster and sold for $4650.
Photos from Legacy Collectables.
The one thing that didn’t seem correct is the 41 marked receiver with double 135 proof marks. Well until I found a reference on Legacy-collectibles. On their site the showed my exact gun with double Eagle 135 proof marks but had an aluminum button magazine instead of the black Bakelite magazines I have.
In further researching the guns with double 135 proofs were in a transition period when the inspector 655 was replaced by inspector 135. Being at the end of the year would also explain why my gun is an (a) suffix SN. Most likely the factory went through the alphabet and then started repeating the suffix code which was normal as I understand.
The Legacy gun only had 1 magazine and no holster and sold for $4650.
Photos from Legacy Collectables.
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With a little web searching you can find a pdf copy of the Standard Catalog of Luger.
It is a great reference book.
It is a great reference book.
I do not know much about Lugers. This is the only Luger in my safe, but it is very special to me. It was my grandfather's. He brought it back from Germany (WWII). Have no idea how he acquired it.
We have the "capture papers" and customs paperwork. His command verified that the pistol's tropy value exceeded any training, service, or scrap value, etc. Customs document shows that it came back on September 8, 1945.
Here are a few pics of the pistol, customs and capture papers, holster with extra mag....and a couple photos of my grandfather.
We have the "capture papers" and customs paperwork. His command verified that the pistol's tropy value exceeded any training, service, or scrap value, etc. Customs document shows that it came back on September 8, 1945.
Here are a few pics of the pistol, customs and capture papers, holster with extra mag....and a couple photos of my grandfather.
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Very cool!
jsfricks
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Below is a link to the Luger forum. Those guys were a great help to me on the history of mine.
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My dad bought this 1916 DWM in 1960 along with a holster, an M40 helmet, 4 boxes of 1944 dated ammo, a U.S. Army map of France dated 1944 and an Iron Cross 1st Class for the tidy sum of $100. What's weird is it has "Black Widow" grips that fit perfectly. They must be legit to cause the guys at The Luger Forum offered me big bucks for them. Wonder how they got on it???
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nearly 30 years ago, my now deceased father in law and I went to a gun show, where he bought three Lugers, a 1915, another of similar vintage, and a mint perfect, '42 BYF, for $1100 for the trio. I shot the last one, and some years later he sold it a local pastor, who since became mentally disabled, and I don't know where it is now. For years I had no interest in the two WWI era pistols. I thought they were just too "bling" for me. A perfect 1915 came to me when he died about four or so years ago. The other early one he must have sold at some point in time.
It was only when I inspected the 1915 pistol, and found it wasn't gold plated but had straw blued parts. Many years ago, located a holster of a later vintage, and have since given the Luger and it's mag and holster and tool to my son. here it is.
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It was only when I inspected the 1915 pistol, and found it wasn't gold plated but had straw blued parts. Many years ago, located a holster of a later vintage, and have since given the Luger and it's mag and holster and tool to my son. here it is.
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This 1914 Erfurt Artillery was a WWII bring back by my late FIL. 3rd Army Corporal. I don't recall him ever saying whether he acquired it in North Africa or Europe and he told no war stories. I first encountered it in the hands of his only daughter, who pulled it from under the couch we were both sitting on, making me instantly thankful I hadn't gotten fresh.
He carried it in a GI shoulder holster both during the war and under an overcoat while working as a traveling salesman for years thereafter. A former wrestler and college football player, he was known as "King Kong" and could make that mode of carry work. When he was 60 he went 3 rounds with a man 20 years his junior as an unofficial prelim to a Tommy Hearns bout.
He and the gun were both class acts in my estimation. So is his daughter.
He carried it in a GI shoulder holster both during the war and under an overcoat while working as a traveling salesman for years thereafter. A former wrestler and college football player, he was known as "King Kong" and could make that mode of carry work. When he was 60 he went 3 rounds with a man 20 years his junior as an unofficial prelim to a Tommy Hearns bout.
He and the gun were both class acts in my estimation. So is his daughter.
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