My 1929 'sneak' police............

[Edward Tinker]

I think parts of it were reblued. The lettering on the underside of the barrel is pretty faint looking to me.

Many folks will talk about a gun like this as being refurbished or arsenal redone. This is always possible, but the strawed parts would be strawed and there would be markings showing it was refurbed. A later barrel would be marked by the arsenal or maker marking (such as an eagle 6) - the suffix WOULD be the same for the barrel and the frame. But that suffix looks too low to me?

It is possible that a previous owner had a luger or two that were post 1937 and thought that they should be blued and thus had them blued, and /or that they were steel colored and thus they tried to fix them.

What we are seeing is a commercial luger that went into police service. The unit marking book for WW1 army, I have up for sale written by Jeff Noll. For Police unit markings, either Don's book or ours....


Ed