What is a Sneak Luger?

[Edward Tinker]

Originally posted by John Sabato
...but I think the answer that Rev was looking for is that they are Lugers that were produced without accountability under the Treaty of Versailles.... after WW1. In other words, they snuck them through production without the allies knowing about it.

I don't believe this is the reason they are not marked. Sneak is a common term used for the lugers that were made right at the change between DWM and Mauser. One reason I do not believe they were sneaking anything, is that there were lots of guns being made, with toggle marking of firms' names for many years after WW1, Simson, DWM's, Mauser, krieghoff, why suddenly start to worry about being marked, plus many if not most are for the police, exempt by the Treaty...

The reason(s) could be something as simple as;

1. They only had DWM toggles and with the change over, they simply did not want to put DWM toggles on them.
2. It could be that since they were all DWM parts, but not made by DWM, the toggle was placed onto it blank.


Ed