Black Widow grip observation
 

A while back I compared 3 sets of BW grips; all of which were purpored to be authentic. While doing the comparison I noticed on 2 sets of the grips, which happen to be the '41 single hole variety, there are 2 very small zeroes on TWO sets of the grips. The zeroes were in the identical spot. I am wondering if this would help as a guideline in authenticating real vs. fake. This is only on the right grip.

No zeroes on my 42.

Balder

There are two zero's on my '41 byf (right grip only) & I've no reason to think this pistol grip's been altered since issued.
Brendan

Can't say what they mean, but I have noted those small "o" markings on a few known-authentic black widow grips.
Luke

Mine has the 2 Os Merry Christmas to all clint

Hi
My 42 blackwidow doesn't show those signs, mery Christmass to all of you from Switzerland

Fredo,
do the grips you have show a circle with concentic rings outside?
the grips you are showing are from a VOPO Luger east German rework.

Hi Yes they do show concentric circle, may be I'm confused between balck widow and East Germany VOPO rework. What's the difference?

Good Question...
East Germany carried after WWII a lot of captured Lugers still in theyr Police forces. They have had special gauges to measure the Lugers when they made a 1 year inspection. They also cept the Smeisser extruded magazines producing going on and marked them with
2/1001, they made theyr own spare parts like east German side plates etc.
Most VoPo Lugers are reblued sand blasted , re numbered, numbers are x-ed out and new numbers are etched into the steel parts.
Frankonia sold them a few years ago. Probably yours is stamped at the drigger guard with a very small WWF, which is pointing the way to Frankonia trading company.
A picture of your luger would also help.

Just 2 possiblities about the little "O" 's :

1. Air bubbles that came to the surface while the resin was setting up.

2. The maker used a 2-pronged tool to test the resin to make sure it was hard enough to pull the grip out of the mold ? Maybe the left and right grip were poured in a common mold so only 1 of the 2 grips needed to be tested with the pronged testing tool.

3. Any other ideas ??????

Hi
here are somes picture of my GERMAN VOPO reworked , feedback is welcome
To my opinion the original gun was a mauser dated 1939, all Nr matching excepter the side plate. It was also reblued and has no longuer the original grip. The gun shoots very well and I paid 150�£ from Ranger Arms in England some 10 years ago

And a closer look at the side plate shows remarking and a strange mark on the left bottom side, may be this franconia marking?

Pete, The thing that got my attention is that 2 pairs of grips of mine had the zeros in the exact same spot. I believe that they are not in the mold of the grip.