will get some up once I get home

since the toggle has been replaced and is a "42", who originally made it

If the chamber is marked 1920 then it had to have been made by DWM. At least that part of it and whatever else matches up to the upper receiver/barrel. You can look at the back of the frame and if it is perfectly flat it is DWM ...if it has a very slight bulge/hump it is Mauser.

...Mailman with an Uzi??? :D

$550 is a great price, but we need pics of the markings, toggle, serial #, magazine, full side views, 1100 x 1100 pixels is max for this forum, many here use electron microscopes to take their pics...or so it seems... :rolleyes:

Jerry, it is possible that this is a property stamp and not a date. We need photos.

Don, I am SURE it is probably a property mark. That's why it was made by DWM. Property mark or date..wouldn't make any difference. Made by DWM. I have never seen anything but a DWM with with a 1920 property mark.
By the time Mauser started making Lugers the 1920 property mark was long past.

Property markings were applied immediately after WW1 by the time the Weimar Govt. was established..there was no need for the 1920.

What else could it be?

Jerry, you are almost certainly correct that it is DWM but there are some issues. The vertical c/N suggests it was from an Alphabet DWM. If it is matched to the frame, the frame serial number suffix will tell us when it was manufactured.

A few police continued to use the 1920 property stamp into at least the mid-1920s.

Hopefully, photos will clear things up.

P.S. I have recorded quite a few police Erfurts with 1920 property stamps. Of course, these all also have a manufacture date.

Don, Yes..absolutely. Some things I forgot about! You are correct.

here it is, nothing fancy but its a start

forgot this one

It does appear that the frame, barrel and barrel extension are all from the same gun and that it was manufactured by DWM as a commercial pistol in 1923-24. I expect it is in .30 cal.

The 1920 is a property stamp and not a manufacture date. It's anyone's guess as to what it is doing there.

can you tell me anything about the grips, I havent seen any like that yet in my limited experience?

also, sorry for begginner questions, but what is a property stamp?

The grips are probably replacements. Others know more than I about these.

The short answer about the 1920 property stamp is that it was ordered to be applied to government-owned weapons in 1920 to distinguish them from privately owned weapons during the disarmament of the German people after WWI. For it to appear on a gun that was manufactured several years later is rare but not unkown.

thank you very much for the information

can you tell me anything about the grips,

These grips are Swiss.

so should I sell the swiss grips or just leave them be since it has a mismatched toggle anyhow?

The grips are of the Swiss style, but are not Swiss since they are not relieved for a grip safety. Most likely they are a very good quality Italian replacement/reproduction. There probably would not be much to gain by selling them seperately.

thanks Ron, yeah I was leaning that way anyway, they have character