Question on inverted serial letter suffix on Luger

[Ron Wood]

Two cents back at you John...the markings on the magazines are upside down "n". Neither open leg of a "u" have a "curl" at the end and there are two starting and ending strokes of a "u", both at the rounded bottom. Ed's tutorial (post #4) clearly shows this.

[guns3545]

They are definitely upside down "n". Could be workman's error. Not sure what kind of jig they used as they stamped suffixes.

But, I would really like to see the other side of the magazines.

They should have the Haenel 122 code and the WaA Eagle 37 proofs and no P.08.

And... subject to measuring the diameters of the bases, I am NOT prepared to write off these mags as fake or boosted.

As always, JMVHO

John

[John Sabato]

Originally Posted by Ron Wood

Two cents back at you John...the markings on the magazines are upside down "n". Neither open leg of a "u" have a "curl" at the end and there are two starting Ron, and ending strokes of a "u", both at the rounded bottom. Ed's tutorial (post #4) clearly shows this.

I stand corrected on the identification of the "N" as a "U" I based my opinion on my examination of the photos and didn't open Ed's reference article... My bad.

Ron is correct, they are upside down "N" characters...

...on the matter of the re-stamping of the serial number. I am still of the opinion that the mags were re-stamped... the font is not the same as the pistol... the #3 has a flat top on the mags and the rounded top #3 is used on the pistol frame. While this may be possible, I am still not of the opinion that mixing fonts was likely during this time (1941-42) manufacturing process.