Rare French Manual
 

Hello Fellows,
You know that the 1946 Mauser P08 and LP08 made by Mauser under French control are quite rare. Even rarer is the manual made in 1950 by the French Army to describe the gun for the Army gunsmiths. Around 5000 of this booklet have been printed out in 1950/1951 and mainly used during the Indochina war.
I have asked about these manuals to several French experts in the matter and the answer was always â??yes I know about these manuals but I have never seen oneâ?�.
I was able to get one (the first and only I have seen right now) a few days ago and now you can see it in the next pictures.
The booklet contains 24 pages describing the gun and the spare parts. What it is interesting as well is the general description of the 12 digit coding number in accordance with the French logistic coding of that epoch.

I hope you appreciate it.

Have fun.

Cheers,
Mauro

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Amazing! How do you come across these things, Mauro? You must be very lucky (and smart)... :D

His French is pretty good, that helps him beat me every time :)

Mauro: congrats on a rare find!

Hello Mauro,

What a rare find. I am glad it now resides in the Luger community.

Thank you guys,
I got some more scans:

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Quite a "Find" Mauro congratulations.

Mille Grazie Mauro for sharing this unique find with the Lugerforum!

You are indeed a gentleman.