For Our French Fans
 

"1903 FRENCH"

http://forum.lugerforum.com/lfupload/french2c.jpg

Fantastique!

Albert

WOW!

Look at the checkering on the toggles!

A dream come true!

Vern

wow, really nice Ron,


Ed

Neat !

Notice the 90 degree pattern of checkering along the face of the toggle knobs...similar to the rare 1904 Navy pistols.

Ron,

Does it also have the new model extractor with the shorter "ears" ?

Pete,
Yes, it does.

http://forum.lugerforum.com/lfupload/extractor_ears.jpg

Ron,
Is this a new Luger for your collection, or one you've had awhile? No matter when you got it, it's gorgeous!
How do you write (jealous) in French?
Mike C.

Mike,
I have had the Luger for a while, but I only lucked into the rare French manual a couple of months ago.

Ron, thanks for sharing pictures of your fantastic collection! Impressive.. makes clicking around here more interesting :)

Ron, merci pour cette contribution ! quel dommage que notre l�©gislation europ�©enne, et fran�§aise en particulier, sur les armes soit si stupidement restrictive..
ps: jealous= jaloux.

Ron I too own a 1906 French D'armes luger, serial number#51872, Mine is nowhere close to your in condition, Could you either post your serial number or e-me snookem13@aol.com, Merci Beaucoup, mon amie!

PS Where did you ever find the manual, Coool??

Beautiful set!
Congratulations.

Yea, thats one in a million. This first one Ive ever seen. Ill trade my 06 frenchy and $$$$$, Wishful thinking

To paraphrase Pete Ebbink... Ron is spending his children's inheritance "one Luger at a time"...

Congrats Ron... it is a fantastic addition to your collection. Thanks for sharing the views with the forum.

I shall repeat someone else's question... where on earth did you find the manual to go with it?

Ron in 50+ years of collecting I have never seen a finer collection of lugers. You must have worked very hard to obtain such fine guns. But I must in all truth say I sure envy you.
Outstanding collection thank you for sharing.

Here is a mini-study of the extractor markings on some M1903 French Lugers :

1st. Photo of that on Ron's gun :

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...tormarking.jpg

2nd. Photo is from an article Charles Kenyon wrote for "The Gun Report" in November 1997 on pages 12 and 58 :

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...tormarking.jpg

Last Photo is from Kenyon's book, "Lugers At Random" on page 87 :

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...inglarbook.jpg

Pete,

An excellent little mini photo documentary, thanks very much for scoping it out and passing the info on.

--Dwight

Dwight,

In "The Gun Report" article I mentioned, above...Kenyon surmises a small number of possibly 50- M1903 French guns. At the time of his article, he cites SN 25019 and 25035 known to the author. He also adds by SN 25074 the main spring (flat in the M1903's) went to a sprial spring as noted on a commercial M1906 Navy gun.

From your most recent update to your Commercial Luger database, I see some other numbers have fallen into the M1903 French SN range :

25012
25013
25019
25024
25025 (Fake notation, Santa Barbara gun shop gun...)
25026 (Fake notation, Santa Barbara gun shop gun...)
25031
25035

That "charge" in the middle photo from Kenyon's 1997 article is a bit worrisome...as compared to the others...wonder why Kenyon decided to include that gun/photo in his 1997 article...?

Especially in light of this comment made about M1903 French-marked extractors made by a smart guy on the LF back in 2005...

" The letters in the CHARG�? marking on the extractor appear to be of uniform height rather than tapering from large to small. On a genuine French extractor, the â??�?â?� is approximately only two-thirds the height of the â??Câ?�. "