Navy Toggle Question

[Pete Ebbink]

After reading the exchange about small versus large pin flanges, I would like to ask a question :

Can such things as the size of the rear pin flange be so "black & white" ?

Is it possible, that in the frentic production schedule at DWM during 1916-1917 (during war years), regular Navy parts bins became empty and to keep production numbers up, the folks at DWM utilized other parts rather than not make their production quotas ?

I ask this question not to defend the luger in question or the seller.

I have been reading other Forum threads about serial number stamps on a trigger being stamped "upside" down, some military guns with commerical serial number stampings, and some parts "double stamped". Recently a Forum thread is discussing the size of the date stamp on 1916 versus 1917 Navyies, with folks citing examples of both and to the contrary. With these examples, the folks in the luger factory decided to pass the gun down the line.

I have a Swiss luger that is all "white" on its interior surfaces, except for the front well where the locking bolt runs through. All the Swiss books say this front well should be in the white as well. I surmise the factory worker that was brushing the rust blue solution on maybe let some chemical drip into this front well. Certainly not factory spec's, but the luger was not rejected and was pass down the line, anyways.

Is it possible in 1917, during the dire years of WWI and the German war machine screaming for lugers, that some Navies were made with the "wrong" type of rear pin flange size ?

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