Restamped suffix
 

I own a 1936 s/42 which has been worked on in its interesting life. Some person stamped the letter "a" over the "i" on the frame and also stamped the reciever with an "a". The gun only has a few mismatch numbers in the small parts.
Why would this happen? I admit that having the only 1936 s/42 in the "a" suffix is rare, but it is hard to verify.

Here is the other "a"

I would posit that the alpha character is of East German/Warsaw Pact origin. it certainly is not a correct german suffix font.

Tom A

It is the same "style" of Simson a suffix, but the luger was made years afterwards of Simson going in other directions. I think Tom has a good guess...


Ed

Here is a thread about a 1920-dated DWM that apparently had an original suffix of "n" that was replaced by "b" by the Danes: http://forum.lugerforum.com/showthre...0&pagenumber=1