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Dwight Gruber · 07-13-2003, 11:35 PM

If you have not cleaned the barrel, its condition may be masked by the years of neglect. Pick up a cleaning rod, a brush for 9mm, some patches, and some Hoppes bore cleaner, and ask for a basic lesson on how to use them. Once clean you will have a much better idea of its true condition.

A.W.36 is probably Artillerie Werkstatt (workshop), weapon number 36. This is a vey superficial reading, there may be more to it than that, but this is all that my source material says.

To be generous, there is no way to know what use this Luger was put to (having escaped the furnaces of disarmament), or who owned it, between the fall of the Weimer Republic and 1945. The fact that it was property marked means that it was in Government hands, rather than in posession of a member of the public. The fact that it does not have a sear safety, has its original barrel, and is not police unit marked; means that it was not pressed into police service. It could simply have spent those years in storage somewhere.

Clues to its mystery may lie with the holster. Are there any markings on it?

--Dwight

07-13-2003, 11:35 PM	#6
Dwight Gruber User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Portland, Oregon Posts: 3,908 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1,330 Times in 435 Posts	If you have not cleaned the barrel, its condition may be masked by the years of neglect. Pick up a cleaning rod, a brush for 9mm, some patches, and some Hoppes bore cleaner, and ask for a basic lesson on how to use them. Once clean you will have a much better idea of its true condition. A.W.36 is probably Artillerie Werkstatt (workshop), weapon number 36. This is a vey superficial reading, there may be more to it than that, but this is all that my source material says. To be generous, there is no way to know what use this Luger was put to (having escaped the furnaces of disarmament), or who owned it, between the fall of the Weimer Republic and 1945. The fact that it was property marked means that it was in Government hands, rather than in posession of a member of the public. The fact that it does not have a sear safety, has its original barrel, and is not police unit marked; means that it was not pressed into police service. It could simply have spent those years in storage somewhere. Clues to its mystery may lie with the holster. Are there any markings on it? --Dwight