Some eye candy
 

Christmas is nearing.

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You are welcome. It is one of the 250 commemorative "Russian" pistols made by Mauser on the swiss machinery they had acquired in the 70's. It is explained in some threads on these forums how Mauser restarted production mainly for distribution by Interarms in USA.

PS: send CC details, there is a membership fee to be on my Christmas gift list (unless you are female and convincing enough to get a discount LOL)

Well, not made on Swiss machinery, but a nice example of a Commemorative Mauser Parabellum nonetheless! Proofed in Ulm, so basically destined for the European market, this one.

Number 112 of 250?

Yes, 112.

Wasn't the machinery purchased from Switzerland by Mauser?

Nice gun!!
I like it, I have the Bulgarian commemorative that was usually sold "in pair" with the Russian one.

I really like it.

Cheers,
Mauro

Mauser bought some jigs, the technical drawings and the quality control gauges.

The jigs were useless, the technical drawings were used in prototyping and then redone. Only the QA gauges saw use, although a number of them had to be altered because of differences in detail design. So although the Mauser Parabellum is unmistakingly based on the Swiss 06/29, it was not made on the same machinery.

I noticed that the pistol has a MecGar magazine with plastic bottom in it.
IIRC they were sold with either the normal Mauser magazines, or the commemorative version with a wood bottom piece.

Thank you for clearing this point. :thumbup:

Beautiful Luger. Wish I had one under my Christmas tree. Glad you do!

Charlie

Gadzooks, even the "enlightened" comtemporary Mauser technicians of the 1970's made the same "mistake" as their grand-ancestors in marking the safety area in BULGARIAN! After all the brouhaha on both forums about this issue, I showed this marking to two separate Russian native persons who both proclaimed independently that this word is the SAME in BOTH Russian and Bulgarian! (I hope I don't re-muddy the waters!)

uh?

incorrect lettering?
 

I have a problem with the "s" .
In the middle of a word this kind of "s" was not used.
"Kaiserreich" and "Pistole"

Enclosed is a printed example of old German lettering:

If a word at the beginning of a sentence is beginning with a capital "S", then a rounded normal "S" is used, like: Schriftbeispiel.
If a word does not begin with a capital-"S", then a long "s" is used like in "seiner".
A "s' in the middle of a word, like Beispiel is a long "S", looks like a "f"
2nd example: Was ist Aufklarung.
The "s" in Was is a normal "S" because it is at the end of the word, the "s" is not a log "S" because the "S" is in the middle of the word.
There are some exeptions when the "S" in the middle of a word is written with a normal "S" like in Ausgang.
Because it is a word connected by two words" Aus and Gang
I have my doubts that the engraving is original, because this kind of mistake is done by a lot of modern engraver.

Another example: Deutschland

In old lettering the "S" must be a long "S" looking like
DeutIchland not Deutschland.

Please see my 2nd attachement, a photo of the Luger army manual. As you can see, the word "Pistole" is written correctly with the long "s", not the regular "s".
Why should an engraving have a wrong "s" ???:nono:

Edmund, could you show a view of the chamber. I would like to see if crossed Mosin-Nagant rifles are stamped there.

This seems like deja vu all over again! I hope Albert or Pavlov don't see this thread. Norm

Andy,
The "s" in the middle of the "Russland" is a "double s", and is correct.

The lettering of the word "Russland" is correct.
But:
There was not a double-"s" in the word "Russland" except nowadays, it should be a "scharfes S", or called "sz" on old items and books.
The "scharfes S" (hot s), also called the "sz", it is a combination of a "s" and a "z". Like in Fuss (foot), Fass (barrel), Kuss (kiss), Schuss (shot), Hass (hatred).
I can't type the correct "sz", because I have an American keyboard. :typing:
A few years ago they changed the German language. (About 2001?)
Nowadays they write Russland, Kuss, Fass, Schuss, Hass with double-s "ss", they would not do this in the past, only if they could not use the correct lettering.
You can see the combination of a "s" and a "z" in the word "Entschliessung" (sorry, I have to use the double-SS because of my keyboard)
They changed a lot of words to the use of double-s "ss", but not all. (Greetings) Gruesse, (Feet) Fuesse, (Street) Strasse, must be still written with the "schafes-s" or called "sz".

But there was /is a different between the German-laguage in Germany and Austria and the German-language in Switzerland. As far I know, the Swiss-German-language does not use the "scharfes-s" or called "sz".

But the misspelling of the "s" in the middle of a word is a wide spread mistake by producer of faked German militaria.

The “scharfes S” is called “Eszett “ in German and depending upon its location with respect to vowels on either side or at the end of a word can represent “sz” or “ss”. The letter on the Russian replica Luger is the old Fraktur letter whereas the more modern letter resembles the lower case Greek letter beta. Prior to the spelling reform of 1996, place names such as Russland would have used the Eszett for the double s. Subsequent to that date it would be spelled "Russland" as we do now. Given the 1906 date of the Luger that the replica represents, I believe the Fraktur Eszett would be correct. But as usual, I could be wrong.

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The Postwar Mauser Parabellum chamber markings were etched, not stamped, FWIW.

Ron, you are right, the "Eszett" is of course correct, but I have a problem with the "s" in the words Kaiserreich" and "Pistole".
The engraver used a regular rounded "s" instead of the long "s" which should look a littlebit like a "f"
As seen on the Luger manual.

Andy,
You are correct. The marking would seem inconsistent. If they were going to use a Fraktur Eszett, then one would think they would also use a long Fraktur s. I got stuck on the Eszett in Russland and forgot about the others. Profuse apologies:)

To repeat myself, the exposed logo ОГЪНЪ indicates the safety lever position for FIRE in the Bulgarian spelling; the Russian spelling would be ОГОНЬ. There is no way for a native speaker of Russian or Bulgarian to get confused about this matter. The following Wikipedia pages explain the roles of the hard and soft signs in Cyrillic alphabets:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_sign

What an enlightening discussion... made sense even before I had my coffee this morning!

Thanks friends for contributing... that's what this forum is all about---SHARING information. :)

Michael, not sure how that applies here? (And I don't think you can 'repeat' yourself, when it is a totally different forum... ;))

It is unlikely that they had native speakers at DWM?

And the newer Mauser made, did they consult or did they simply copy the previous mistakes, as Herb said?


Ed

Well, the commemoratives were made to commemorate classic versions of the pistol, so it was completely logical to copy as much details of those originals as possible. So yes, they copied the inscription of the original pistols.

......and therefore REPEATED the same mistakes!

If it was a mistake :D

Gerben,
Thank you for stirring the pot so that I don't have to!:)

Commemoratives
 

Are there anymore?

Yes, there are LP08, Navy and Carbine commemoratives that I know of.

Ok, it is a bit of self promotion, but if you are into commemorative Mausers you really should take a look at our new book on the post war Parabellum:

'The Parabellum Is Back! 1945-2000', available through Brad Simpson Publishing Ltd. or through the web site www.theparabellumisback.com

The best commemorative is the one with the mistake: '75 Jahre MAUSER Parabellum' :)
This version was pulled from the market after they found out that Mauser really hadn't produced any between 1900 and 1930....

To pre-order the book here in the USA, go to:

https://www.simpsonltd.com/ParabellumIsBackPreOrder.pdf

PS: We just picked up a Russian Interarms Luger this weekend with the box & case.

Hi Brad, I tried your pre-order form, but it contains no prices. Let us know when it's fixed. Regards, Norm

Seems to work for me.

Others have had problems, so we are working on it.

Brad, I see it too.

Be aware that some people have Mac's and older browsers, so....


ed

My IT guys say it is fixed:

https://www.simpsonltd.com/ParabellumIsBackPreOrder.pdf

Hi Brad, With all due respect to your IT guy, your form contains no prices for the books. I can't believe this is just a Mac problem. Regards, Norm

Norm,
I can see the prices just fine on the .pdf form. The problem I had is that after I filled in the form to order the book, I could not submit it by email using the "hot button" on the form. I ended up phoning in my order. I think it may be a problem between my email app, Eudora, and my ISP.

If you can pull up the form, the prices are on it. It is a .pdf so there is no way the prices can be removed.

Hi Brad, Here's the form I get, as you can see - no prices! It's no big deal, I'll call your store and order the book. Regards, Norm