DWM US Test Model
 

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http://pictures.auctionarms.com/6206...20080203125011

http://pictures.auctionarms.com/6206...20080203125011

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Gun discussed a few months back :

http://forum.lugerforum.com/showthre...highlight=7110

Right "ear" of the frame has some odd machining marks...

http://forum.lugerforum.com/lfupload/7110_copy1.jpg

Didn't see it, just that perfection is usually not an attribute of 100 year old objects

Ya, but *some* imperfections are a sign of tampering, and others, not so much.

I am very careful and leery of guns over 90 years old that are brand new looking. And there sure are a lot of really nice Test Lugers, which I have always found odd :confused:


Ed

PS: The army taught me not to aim at anything I didn't intend to shoot / kill....

It's really hard to find a 85% TE. Either it does not show up, and when it does show up, it's 99%. :cheers:

Sounds rather high to me, not to mention the locking bolt is stamped in the wrong place. If someone wants to spend $15,500, I have two legit test Eagles they can have with some change coming back.

Mike

This stamp?

no this one; although the newer data that Dwight and others came up with has shown that the number placement is not as good of an indicator as it used to be felt.


ed

Thanks for the explanation.

Just looked up Dwight's database, and page 87 of Luger Story. Both excludes 7110 as a TE..... at least not one of those Bannerman's 780. Luger Story contains a typo saying 770 Bannerman guns, but the total of 6167-96 (28), 6282 (1), 6361-7108 (748), 7147 (1) = 780. Anyway, 7110 is not inside.

7108, currently in Springfield Armory Museum (Luger Story), has partial s/n on the face of the TD level (Dwight).... just like this 7110.

Alvin,
Your analysis of the typo in Luger Story is essentially correct (except that the interval of 6167-6196 is 30 pieces, not 28) and if you have a copy of Jan Still's new "Central Powers Pistols" you will find the identical analysis on page 413.
Currently, at least as of 3 January 2004, serial number 7108 was in the possession of a Mr.Henry Richardson as reported on Jan Still's GunBoards forum on that date, and that is the first time it was noted as having the take down numbered on the left side. Prior to that the change in numbering from the right round to the left flat had only been observed on #7138. The reporting of #7108 dropped the change-over down to within the Bannerman purchase. By the way, that is another typo in Luger Story, the Luger in the Springfield Arsenal collection is #7018, not #7108, and it is a mismatch having barrel #6196. Isn't it interesting that the barrel number was included in the Bannerman purchase, yet the frame with that barrel was not?!!:)