Help me identify my Luger
 

I have a couple of Lugers and would love to identify the markings on them. The first one starting on the right side has a large S and underneath there is a B80 S91 and a box with 8 lines coming out of the bottom, on the left side is a SA in a box and than 3746. Posted a drawing of markings

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pic of left side

pic of right side
 

pic of right side

my second Luger
 

My second Luger looks much newer and it has been blued. The symbols are much harder to read. I will try my best to translate. rt side has four different markings but there very small, looks like a RG with a crown, 2 sideways 2R with a crown, and then just a crown. The crowns maybe three small circles hooked together. The left side has 1728 than 05 than a N with a crown on the top.

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left side pic

close up lt side
 

close up maybe blurry

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close up maybe blurry

missed top marking
 

on the top of newer one is marked 1916 and some kind of script. I'm sorry I'm not very clear on some of it

missed top marks on the first one
 

Also on mt first gun that I posted is the same script and than the letter K

Got currious and looked into the metadata on our pictures. You are using 1/30 of a second in shutter time combined with flash and a low iso value..

1/30 should be more like 1/150 to make a more stabile picture, increaseing the ISO could make that possible. But the best is probably to take the pictures in more bright light without the use of flash. Btw. your focus distance is set to 7.3mm (a little under three inches), anything from there and out should be ok.
Will let someone else comment your Lugers, I 'wasted' enough working time for the day;)

Your K date (1934) PO8 is interesting with the Finnish Army markings, but since both of them have been reblued, they have lost most of their collector value. TH

follow up
 

First sorry about the pics but my camera is junk. I'm going to use my brothers to see if I can get some better pics. Second is that the first gun is not blued only the second one is. Thrid thanks for the side bar comment as I am new to the site.

Actually, both guns are blued, yours has been reblued. ;)


Even a crummy camera can take fairly good pictures, lots of natural light and use the macro setting or the highest digital setting further away and then crop down to the area.


The magic is plenty of indirect light :)

Ed

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amazing what a better camera does

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last one was not next gun I meant to put next pic

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