Interesting piece.

[NoncomRetired]

Originally Posted by John Sabato

Hey Ed, It has only been about 8 hours since you posted the link... give us time to have our coffee before we offer advice or knowledge...

The forum search engine is your friend... Here is an OLD thread that discusses possibly the same Luger but you can't be sure since the thread is old enough (11 years) that the associated photos have fallen off the edge of the server... but the discussion, including the humor, is still valid.

http://forum.lugerforum.com/showthre...light=Kl+Luger


The best advice in the thread is from "Navy", who for those who don't know, is my late friend Tom Armstrong, whose knowledge was second to none in this collecting community... Tom said "The KL meaning is unknown;" ... I don't think that has changed.

Thanks John...I take it from the jokularity about the piece that it's almost become a legend. I would think that if it's been around this long and disputed this long, some german vet or knowledge from a german vet back then would have chimed in. I had never seen it before and was curious. Tom's response still stands. Unknown.................

Thanks again..............

[ithacaartist]

Originally Posted by NoncomRetired

... some german vet or knowledge from a german vet back then would have chimed in...

I have the impression that, even 2 or 3 generations later, there is still social stigma attached to admissions of connection to concentration camps. In this respect, I don't find it surprising that no one has said they were stationed at one, or had a pistol thus marked. Also, the German vets are disappearing just as fast as ours; so this kind of info/testimony will be even more rare as time proceeds.

[John Sabato]

Originally Posted by ithacaartist

Also, the German vets are disappearing just as fast as ours; so this kind of info/testimony will be even more rare as time proceeds.

...just FYI, the last statistics I saw indicated that the USA is losing between 1200 to 1800 WW2 vets a DAY...