Another Shooter Luger Adventure

[Kyrie]

Originally Posted by DonVoigt

I'm not sure what you think is different about the sear safety?

It is not a Belgian police pistol, but a captured German police pistol - one that was re-proofed for commercial sale in or export from Belgium. The "L" in the bombe is for Liege.

Not all German police lugers received the magazine safety. The mag safety was "ordered" after the sear safety, so this piece could have received it "early"- and never returned for the mag safety addition OR it received the Mag safety after 1937, when its use was discontinued.

Any grip markings or signs of removal?

Great catch for the money, and interesting - it has sure had some history, and travels in its time.

Hello Don,

If you are unsure what I “think is different about the sear safety”, please re-read my post for my observations concerning the differences between this sear safety and all the other German Luger sear safeties I have seen.

I’m aware it is a German Luger, and is presumably a police pistol based on the observation it has a sear safety. But the different shape/size of the sear safety has me questioning whether the sear safety is German, and hence, whether it was a German police pistol. That was why I was asking if we had any collectors of Belgium police sidearms handy – so I could inquire if in their experience the sear safety might be Belgian in origin. I’m expecting a “no sear safeties on Belgium police pistols” reply, and should I get that word from a Belgium police pistol collector I have another question queued up :-)

Not sure what you asking here: “Any grip markings or signs of removal?” The full pistol left/right scans are pretty good at showing grip panel detail. Is there some area of the grip panels not shown of which you would like a pic?

Regarding your comment, ‘The "L" in the bombe is for Liege’, do you have a reference? While I’m aware of more than one Belgium proof house mark that have some similarity to the proof marks on this pistol, I’ve not seen any that were full matches. The same is true of Spanish proof house stamps; no single stamp is a match.

Kyrie