1936 Mauser S/42
 

This is a nice 1936 Mauser for your viewing.

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Proofs DE/63

Replacement mag marked S/42

Holster, extra mag and DE/63 marked tool

Back of dated 1936 holster with DE/WaA

Very nice!
I love that Mauser finish, and what a beautiful rig you have.
Even the spare mag marked S/42!
Just wonderful, thanks for sharing the pics.

These armorer replacement mags can come in handy.

Beautiful rig :cool:

What would one expect to pay for a similar 1936 S/42 ?

Thanks

very, very nice. Thanks!

Guy

I have no idea of the current price of a 1936 Luger in this condition. I bought this pistol in 1994 and prices have gone up considerably since then.

Joe

The take down, trigger, and mag release are blued? Is the gun all matching? Small parts should be straw. John

John

I omitted mentioning in the beginning the serial number, 5997o. Those parts should be blue. Change over from straw to blue occured during production of the n suffix. All of these parts are matching.

Joe

Hi Joe, the 1936 Lugers should contain straw colored small parts! The change to all blue parts didn't occur until 1937 in the T-Block! :(

Frank

Your correct about the change from straw to blue occuring in 1937. I must have miss read Still's comments on page 39 in Third Reich Lugers, under Characteristics for the 1936.

The small parts of this Luger must have been reblued sometime during their life, as they are all numbered to this gun. The frame, barrel and slide have not been reblued.

Joe

I can't come up with a logical reason for rebluing just the small parts. Better check the entire finish very carefully, and get a second hands-on opinion by an expert.

I just ordered a copy of Jan's "Imperial Luger".... haven't received it yet. Was this book first published in 1980-1990? Before it's published, I guess there were many unclarified details.... say, one guy in the ownership chain of this gun might believe the small parts should be in certain finish but they were not. So, he might "fix" the problem.

Aaron

I tested the finish on the frame, barrel, toggle and the slide, never reblued.

Joe

Sorry , somewhat off topic .

My education is lacking in that area . How do you test for reblue ?
Thanks :)

I'd like to know how you test for reblueing too.

Me too

Go to the Navy Forum and look for the post by Tom A, that details the inspection of a Navy Luger... it is sticky'ed to the top of the forum. It explains what you need to look for when inspecting most Lugers.

Thanks John . I thought possibly he was referring to some sort of chemical testing or .... ?

Hi Joe, I am new to the site and after posting some ?'s about my 1936 - I read this post and noticed the s/n 5997 - My1936 has s/n 5994 - would this mean my firearm was made 3 before yours at same factory if stamps are the same?
here is my post link with Pics
http://forum.lugerforum.com/showthre...threadid=18935

Thanks, John

No, John, but nice guess. Welcome to the Lugerforum!

Yours is in the 'n' series... this one is in the 'o' series, so you gun was made 10,002 guns before this one Why not 10,003? Because there is no militiary Mauser marked with serial number 10,000 or 0000 - the 'n' series would have ended with '9999 n' and the 'o' series would have started with "0001 o" This Luger was likely made a month or two after yours... Anyone who is tracking production numbers can give you a much better guess about when both of them were made.

Thank you for your reply,
This is why I am here to learn more about these fine firearms.

,John