Anyone else have one of these to go with your Luger?
 

This is from my Great Uncle. Also Have a Letter of Transfer from him.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...fLugerCert.jpg


And here is the Luger. Might not be the most valuable but I havent seen one Yet in better condition for sale thats for sure.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...C/17e9987d.jpg

Can't see a darn thing (many companies like mine prohibit photobucket and the like).

Please post pictures here on the forum, per our rules.


Ed

One interesting (?) point regarding German pistols -- on one hand, pistols were in big demand in general and they had to issue many subsitutes during the War. On another hand, many standard military pistols were stored somewhere unissued. This byf was probably captured in that condition from a storage place. Looks like unbalanced resource allocation was common at that time.

Where did he get this thing? Not from a captured German, correct?

Looks like a beautiful Mauser with bakelite grips and fxo magazines, and capture paper. Search on capture papers to find threads on capture papers.

Have capture papers on two Lugers....

He pulled it off of a captured German Officer in Italy.

Sorry about the pictures, fixed that.

Lightened Photo

If the Germans had had more enlisted riflemen and fewer officers they might have had a chance of winning the war.

I think that is the first "capture papers" that I have seen that was not dated 1945.

My great uncle was in charge of starting to Rebuild the railroads so he may have been over there longer then most and that's why the capture papers are dated 1946

I have seen quite a few and most were issued in 1946.

You would think he would have got the nice holster it was in!

Jerry Burney

I have the holster also.

I'm trying to locate the belt with belt buckle that went with it.

Does anyone have this in addition to capture papers?
 

I too am fortunate to have a set of capture papers (dated Dec. 1945) with my Luger , but along with these I also have a U.S. Army Unit Baggage tag that reads on the back: Accompanied Hold Baggage Unit. Then the owner's name, rank and the Luger's description and serial number. This is the first time I've seen one of these. Anyone else seen one or have one?

Tom