Help needed for identifying a specific luger model

[HerrKaiser]

Given the Serial number, wouldn’t this pistol likely be an early post-war production? (75595 based on the pictures.) Most of the sources I’ve seen, including standard catalog for what it’s worth, have the 73xxx range as the cut off between the end of pre-war and the start of post-war production. My 5 digit commercial is only about 5000 pistols later than this one and most of what I found on it is that it was made sometime between 1919-21.

[Dwight Gruber]

Originally Posted by HerrKaiser

Most of the sources I’ve seen, including standard catalog for what it’s worth...

Determining a convenient and accurate collector designation for commercial Lugers made between 1914 and 1921 has proved to be messy and contradictory.


The "Standard Catalog of Luger" is a particularly egregious purveyor of these terms, among other historical and factual errors, and should never be relied upon as a reference for any aspect of Luger pistols, ever.


--Dwight