1921 (26?) DWM Military/Police
 

Sam Costanzo p.77 notes a Waffen Amp Office proof "WaA 4" for lugers accepted by the Military/Police in 1926.

His position is that pistols were dated 1921 to "fool the Versailles Control Commission"

This is the only information I have found about these and would like more such as aprox. number known and value.

My library is far behind the times I think and I have only been able to find generalizations in Datig, Walter and Kenyon.

BBoGV seems to lump all 20 + into one batch.

Any information on the subject will be appreciated.

Gary

Gary, the 1921 date was genuine. That was the last year that DWM was permitted to manufacture Lugers with bores greater than 8 mm and barrels longer than 98 mm. You can update your library with a number of more recent books on this era including Still's Weimar Lugers, Tinker & Gruber's Police Lugers and my History Writ in Steel.

Thanks much Don, I will check those out but my need for a library is deminishing. Do you know if any of those are available for dl to a Kindle?

So Sam was just speculating on the fake dates? If so the Waffen Amp Office must have been in business before 1926 as he understood.

I have wanted to get Still's Weimar Lugers as I think this must be one of the most difficult periods of arms history there is to research, with the loss of records in the war and the dedicated attempt of a government and an industry to confuse investigators and cover their tracks...

Thanks again for the input.

Gary

As a PS Don, I noted that you have updated the information as receintly as this last July. Hats off to you.

Gary

Gary, to my knowledge, none of the relevant books is available for download.

I don't know the basis of Costanzo's speculation but a lot of period information has been discovered since his book was published. Waffenamt 4 was formed from Ausrustungsamt 4 in 1921.