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laoshi75 08-01-2016 10:26 AM

What is this stock ??
 
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Luger-Pistol...UAAOSwqfNXnKH2

The seller says this is a fantasy item, but I already saw the same wood stock in the Museum of Technics in Berlin a few years ago. I don't think German specialists would display a fake in their museum... Can anybody tell more about this kind of stock please ? Thank you.
PS: the leather part is not a fake (Maury & Co).
christian

Vlim 08-01-2016 10:31 AM

It's for a Japanese toy / replica pistol.

And, yes, current day European museums are dumb enough to put toys in their display cases.

I remember seeing a Portuguese Byf 42 with holster on display in a museum in Luxembourg, being presented as a WW1 Imperial luger... And worse...

With a bit of fiddling, these toy versions will actually fit a real luger. But the metal is too soft to be of any real use in the long term. They also exist as 'telescopic stocks' and 'artillery stocks'.

laoshi75 08-01-2016 10:41 AM

Gerben...thank you for the information. I will be much more suspicious now when I visit our museums, even in Germany. Anyway, the Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin is really fantastic !
christian

rolandtg 08-01-2016 08:02 PM

MGC (Model Gun Corporation) toy stock.
There's some photos of the various different stocks made by MGC in this thread:
http://mp40modelguns.forumotion.net/...-for-luger-p08


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