Swiss DWM 1920 Rework (Strahlenkranz)
 

Here are pictures:

http://www.zollhaus.ch/gun/1920/index.htm

The serie numer is 5446 a


Anyone know what that means "a"? How many were produced?

Afraid there are not a lot of Swiss collectors here on the forum, but someone should know this?

If you mean there is an 'a" after the serial number, normally it means they reached 10,000 and then they start with the "a" suffix.

Also, we'd apprecaite if next time you post pictures directly here, thank you,


Ed

Warner,

To be clear, as Ed mentioned, the "a" that appears after the serial number is a suffix that is part of the serial number.

Your Swiss appears to be in wonderful condition, and I believe it's rare.

I am not a Swiss Luger expert, and am basing this post on John Walter's book "The Luger Story".

You have a "New" or "'06 Pattern" Luger.

He lists DWM Commercial manufactured "Swiss Commercial Pattern" in the years 1907 to 1914. They should be 7.65mm (.30 Luger) caliber guns with 120mm barrel. There should be a Swiss Cross on a Sunburst on the top of the receiver. The frame could be of the short or long type, with a grip safety.

There may be a safety marking in German, and the extractor should show "Geladen" when it's loaded.

He lists quantity 1,000 with a question mark, indicating that this is approximate. This has a rarity index of "10" associated with it, with higher being more rare. Since your gun has a grip safety I believe it could be one of these.

He also separately lists a "refurbished" version of this gun, without the grip safety. He lists quantity "675" for this version. This has a rarity index of "7".

This is older information, published 15 years ago.

Marc