What Is Your Favotrite?
 

Bar none is my 1920 9mm Luger Carbine

I like the ones with the toggle action.:)

Ron, How many varieties were there? I can't find much written on this one.

Simpson has a most beautiful luger carbine stock for $675, Its a almost dead on accurate, especially its hardware. Please take a look. Maybe a spare!!

OOPPS,The carbine stock Simpson is selling is missing the all to important srew swivel. Have you ever seen a swivel replica?

Eric:

Beautiful! I concur with Ron; every one has its own character and appeal!

Clark

Ok, I will take a stand, my favorite is one of these three ;)

1. Test Luger / bannerman number (but I have to settle for a in range right now, and yes, I have owned 1 or 2 test numbers :()
2. 1900 American Eagle
3. 1925 Simson


Ed

1900 AE, because it was my first. I was 14 yrs old when it found it's way to me.

Ed, why is it we don't hear much around Simsons? Until Your book I was unaware they even existed?

I wondered wheather there has ever been a firearm other than our favorite with so many varieties or models.

There were only 12,000 made, so you encounter them less, plus not as well made as the Krieghoff, but to be fair to them, they also were made 10 years before the Kreigs, so they were used much longer and harder, as they were issued straight to the military and police.


Ed

What is their rarest variation?

Eric, I know you have asked this recently and no one has answered you.

I think its because no one knows, some writers have speculated that there are something like 250-350 variations. Military, Police and commercial....

Since it was made by Erfurt, DWM, Simson, Krieghoff and Mauser and then the Swiss, plus each model, the amount is in the hundreds, unless you just counted the specific 'model variations", then it would be a score or so?




Ed

Ed its just so facinating to me. Authors like yourself have been so monumental in keeping it interesting and alive. Twenty years from now its your words that will have written the history for which they will stay alive. You not only write history but from whom it will be judged. A pat on your back and a few others are classically justified!

Of Simson's

in this order

1926 dated Simson
1925 dated Simson
S toggle
police Simson (whether S toggle or Simson toggle)

Thank You, I'm going to spend sometime with your book today!

I love them all.
Each has a story, from the rarest of the rare, to the old beat to death "junkyard dog".
Every one speaks to me, and I do my best to listen.
It's like trying to pick your favorite child, or dog.
Can't really compare one to another, except for $.

Donna truer words have never been typed!! But I would love to adopt a few of your!

Most any correct Navy!

Can't beet
 

an 1908 Navy

Here's one that is rather scarce.

Well we know its an old model and a beauty at that!

Hi George, A rare bird indeed. I assume it's a 1902 German Army test Luger. Has it been re-finished? Best regards, Norm

Well, I am always fond of the Early Portuguese Navy's :)
Vern

What year was that! Its the first one I've ever seen! Do you know how many were made?

I like that 'new' 1970s stuff :):thumbup:

I can honestly say that I have never seen an ugly Luger. I have seen specimens that were "run hard and put away wet!" but there was still beauty there. Most of the really bad ones still can be revived, if you set your mind(and cash) to it.

They are like fine wine. If stored properly it only gets better with time #6786. Part of Bannerman purchase.

P08 my favorite
 

Since childhood a Luger has always been a facinating pistol. Collecting them gave way to rare & desirable variations...But in the end for me a Luger has always been a P08. Best ones by Mauser from 1940 to 1942...Marc

'Nuff said.:)

I can't compete with George and Ron for rarity, but here's my humble entry. Regards

Norm,
That is just flat classic. The lines of a thoroughbred.

Eric

The Early Portuguese Navy's were made 1910 & another order in 1912.

The numbers are controversial because so many guns are made up of parts from both batches and a few fakes from the early years. People are very testy on the subject as I have found out the hard way during some discussions; but we have very good evidence that 350 Crown Anchor & 300 Republic of Portugal guns were made.

We know for a fact that many were defaced as we occasionally see them posted .

Even more rare are the Portuguese Navy's made by Mauser. Don' and Joop's book "The Mauser Parabellum" cover the early DWM made guns and the later ones in pretty good detail starting on page 411 and I recommend this book to any serious collector.

I like all lugers too, It is sure tempting to start a collection of the newer made ones as they represent a great investment opportunity.

Vern

I looked up your reference in Joop and Dons' Bible
 

And came up o section of takedown tool specificully the one posted in my Kreighoff display as I was aware that there were many counterfeits. I confirmed mine was legit having among other thing 2 concentric lines. Now this has become my favorite!

A Nice 1937 Kriegoff Luger
 

Serial #7932 with proofed 1937 H. Eger & Linde Schmalden holster as featured in Jan Still Third Reich Lugers page 119 and Ludwaffe booklet page 133

The last time I saw 1900 so marked was an exceptionally beat up example in the holster of a security guard at a shopping mall parking lot in Acapulco, Mexico, back in the 1980s

I wondered beside the Test holster and Edger & Linde Kreighoff where there any other maker out there known as the Picasso of leather makers??

Tough Selection!
 

As many have stated before me, all Lugers are fascinating to to us collectors. If not why have we followed this thread to this point.

For me as a Mechanical Engineer, the Luger is a refined mechanism that demonstrates basic sound design principles. Looking at and disassembling the Luger pistol displays combining creative thought with manufacturing excellence. Holding the Luger pistol is an extension of the user.

There are many variations of the Luger that I am partial to, but my favorite is the Model 1906 in .30 caliber Parabellum. The variation, AE, Swiss, Portugese or Brasilian, does not matter. To me the Model 1906 .30 caliber Luger is the most favored.