Dutch Grip Question
 

Can anyone provide photos of the markings inside original first-contract Dutch grips? I found a stange pair of grips this weekend which I believe started out as first-contract Dutch, but need something with which to compare.

No photos of these right now, but coming soon.

--Dwight

Hi Dwight,

Scanned the inside of a 1913 DWM. Number 2850. This is the original grip, other one is a coarser GS replacement, marked as such (2850 GS).

This one clearly bears the 2850 number together with a C-style character above it.

http://forum.lugerforum.com/lfupload/2850_big_copy1.jpg

http://forum.lugerforum.com/lfupload/2850_detail.jpg

Gerben,

Thank you very much for the scans, you have confirmed what I suspected about a pair of grips I just picked up.

See the "For Sale" forum.

--Dwight

Gerben, Good Photos, but I find it a bit unusual that the serial in your left grip runs from left to right. Most numbered Dutch contract grips that I've seen, have the numbers running from top to bottom. I currently have an orig DWM right side grip marked inside with GS (from left to right) over 8364 runnning from top to bottom. I also have several exc unnumbered Indonesian course checkered right sides available @$25 each and one exc unmarked non-grip safety set for the M23 Dutch @$75. TH

Hi Tom,

Checked the other (replacement) grip and find that the number also runs in the same direction as this grip, with the GS stamp above it.

There is a slight chance that this grip is an earlier DWM-made replacement, but I doubt it.

Gerben and Tom,

The one original DWM Dutch grip I have--its in the KOL series--is numbered horizontally like Gerben's. In addition, the shape of the "2" seems to be characteristic.

It is true that the coarse-checkered, crude, native-wood grips I have are all numbered vertically.

--Dwight

Hi Dwight,

Well 'almost all', as my coarse replacement grip is stamped like the original one posted here.