Help Identifying German Proof Marks

alanint · 05-10-2012, 04:34 PM

The magazine is "boosted" because at the very least the last two numbers, it not all, have been overstamped to match the gun. You can also see where the magazine bottom has been sanded down to try and make a clean job of it. Unfortunately, the faker did not know enough about Lugers to realize that the Letter Suffix is part of the pistol's serial number and these do not match. Your pistol shows a "T" suffix and your magazine shows a "C" suffix. Thus, it is not matching to the gun and now worth less than if someone had just left it alone.

05-10-2012, 04:34 PM	#4
alanint User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Marco Island, Florida Posts: 4,867 Thanks: 1,685 Thanked 1,917 Times in 1,193 Posts	The magazine is "boosted" because at the very least the last two numbers, it not all, have been overstamped to match the gun. You can also see where the magazine bottom has been sanded down to try and make a clean job of it. Unfortunately, the faker did not know enough about Lugers to realize that the Letter Suffix is part of the pistol's serial number and these do not match. Your pistol shows a "T" suffix and your magazine shows a "C" suffix. Thus, it is not matching to the gun and now worth less than if someone had just left it alone.