I purchased "Luger, Holster And Accessories" from Legacy who dropped their price to $99. I have many questions regarding holsters for early lugers like the 1902 Fat Barrel or my 1906 French contract. What filled the gap between the Test Luger holster through 1908 commercial. I noted there where hundreds of holster makers. Who set the standards! Krieghoff holsters are uniform and beautiful! Lugers and their accessories never grow old! ~Eric

Congrats on your acquisition of such a fine book!
Have a nice week end.

Thank You My Friend!!!!

Is there any way to determine whether a luger magazine came from D.W.M. or Erfurt or any other info?

I just want to repost Clarks' research regarding a topic dear to us all! http://testluger.com/?author=1

The Real Christmas Truce~http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zxsfyrd

First Hand Account~http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/bam/live/c...q6f/transcript

Bannerman Catalog~http://testluger.com/?page_id=2

The Bannerman Store in NYC~http://www.guns.com/2015/11/07/banne...my-navy-store/

Its rize and fall~~~http://www.antiquetrader.com/feature...nermans-empire

The Bannerman Legacy~~ http://user.pa.net/~the.macs/BANNERMAN.html

Bannerman Trust~http://www.bannermancastle.org/island-history.html

Bannermans' Bio~ http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...nts/chap36.htm

Don't I wish I could go back in time. Growing up the closest were the army-navy surplus store in Linden NJ~ http://www.guns.com/2015/11/07/banne...my-navy-store/

Eric,

I find Bannerman and his castle most intriguing. Too bad the place is not in such good shape these days. I've always found abandoned buildings fascinating. Here's a link to Boldt Castle, which is close to where I grew up. Originally, it was never completed--the owner's wife died, and he had been building it for her. The state preservation folks have been at work stabilizing what was there, and moving forward with construction to complete selected areas of the place, most notably the stained glass work above the grand stairwell. As a proposed subcontractor of a colleague who works in stained glass, I put in a bid for completing the steel framework to hold the glass panels, but another company entirely was selected to do the work. http://www.boldtcastle.com/visitorinfo/

What a beauty!! You are lucky to live upstate, There is so much history. I did spend some time in Ithaca and the finger lakes. Did you make Woodstock??

Eric

FWIK DWM mags have got the tiny crimp on top in the shape of an half moon while ERFURT have got a straight one.

Thank You My Friend! I did not know that!!

All Of Our German Favorites~~https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftxYAE_fm7g

A Wonderful Source Of My WW1 Research!~~http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Lin...ther_WWI_Sites