Vickers LTD Dutch Luger Found with Brass Plate Attached
 

Ted, Sweet little pistol! Not a bad price either..Has the course grips. Thanks for showing it!

As Dutch guns go, this one is in about average condition or maybe just a tad better. As Jerry said, not a bad price for a Vickers Dutch. It would be interesting to know if the grips are GS marked on the inside. Thanks for posting Ted.

Should the safety and trigger be blued even in an arsenal rework? The ones I can recall seeing had strawed parts.
http://www.simpsonltd.com/product_in...a738ed4e40e4bc

That is a good question, all the pictures I have seen before this gun indicate strawed parts.

I think that the parts are just age darkened. Under different lighting they might look a bit brighter.

Since they were all made in the Pacific, are all the Vickers grips GS marked or just the replacements?

Vickers Lugers originally had fine checked grips from the factory. Replacement grips made in Indonesia had the coarser checkering and usually were GS marked.

http://luger.gunboards.com/showthrea...=Vickers+grips

"The Vickers pistols were delivered without grips, so the coarse-checkered, native-wood grips are the norm." -Dwight Gruber

Ok. Seems a bit odd for guns to be delivered sans grips. Can't think of a reason for it, but there must be a referance to that fact that has eluded me or I have forgotten in my dotage.

I dont know if thats accurate or not, I know I've seen it said in more than one place but can only find this thread at the moment. The dozen or so Vickers Lugers I have seen in photos seem to have the rough grips, but that does not prove anything. It would make sense that the wood grips be one of the most commonly replaced parts in a humid environment, so it would make sense that it would be rare to find them with finely checkered originals.

I know I saw a listing somewhere for a Vickers in an original presentation case and near perfect finish. I do not recall what the grips looked like, but it might serve as a reference...

I have wondered the same thing about the finish on my #4506 Dutch Vickers. All matching with GS stamped grips and 1939 dated barrel. When these were refinished at the armory were the small parts restrawed or reblued? No straw left on this one.
Tom

Nevermind... I don't believe my own reference....

http://www.phoenixinvestmentarms.com...165Vickers.htm

Is this a Vickers or just a Dutch contract DWM?

The pistol on FGS is a Vickers. Not a Dutch contract, but one prepped as a gift/presentation pistol.

I've seen blued safeties on reworked Dutch lugers, triggers are usually strawed with most strawing missing, leaving a blackish spotted surface.

These Dutch guns had a hard life and they should look that way. The pistol on Simpson's website looks way too nice and was probably refinished by some US 'arsenal' :)

Here is a Vickers that survived Palestine after it survived Dutch East India and WW2.