Serialized toggle pins
 

I thought the toggle pins on earlier Lugers didn't have serial numbers, but here's one in an auction that does.

http://www.auctionarms.com/search/di...temnum=7871036[URL=Luger with serialized toggle pin]


Didn't I read somewhere in here that the 2 digit serial numbers on toggle pins were applied in 1932 and beyond?

1934, but if they went to be rearsenalled or back to the factory / and/or the unit armorer applied it, then you find it on guns made prior to 1934.


This is a very buffed and reblued pistol and should be selling for around $600.


Ed

Definitely a restoration/reblue, though nicely done. The restorers forgot to leave the inside of the frame in the white, however!

Not to take issue with my estimable friend Ed, but...the instruction requiring the number-stamped toggle pin is dated 17 March 1932 (G�¶rtz & Bryans, p.131).

--Dwight

thanks Dwight, my notes said 1934, I have updated them.



Ed

I've only seen 3 of these WaA4 proofed Police pistols with the 1920 chamber date and all had a numbered toggle pin. All were of the 'a' suffix which Jan Still suggests is indicative of newly manufactured post WW1 Lugers. I would guess, that as Ed says, the toggle pins were numbered when the sear safeties were installed after 1932. Howard C. likely knows for sure.
Lyn