Magazine markings

All correct magazines for your byf41 SHOULD be inspected in three (yes, three) places with the E/37 stamp. The magazines were made by a subcontractor (believed to be Schmeisser in Suhl) and inspected separately from the guns. Inspector 37 also inspected 38H pistols and other items made in Suhl, by the way. Inspector 655 handled all Mauser products for the military until late 1941 when inspector 135 took over. Inspector 135's stamp appears on the remainder of lugers through the end of production in November of 1942 (or so it is believed though many lugers appear to have been assembled from leftover parts later in the war). With two matching magazines (actually, there is no such thing as a luger clip, that is an error begun on TV and given a life of its own years ago--it is useful to learn the correct terms as gun collecting is complicated to say the least and it simplifies things) you have a wonderful representation of the luger as it would have been handed to a soldier for combat duty in WW2.


Congratulations,

mcc