K date Luger how did they come up with a 'K'?
 

how did they come up with a 'K'? Eric asked this in the "for sale" section.

And while we are at it, how did they come up with "G"?

Ron, Something I thought I once knew..but it escapes me. We know they are codes like the S code Krieghoff but were they simply snatched out of the alphabet? Interesting question!

Maybe a malfunctioning Ouija board?

Are K and G the only letter chamber dates??? :confused:

As far as I know. And Krieghoff was just as guilty of that deception as Mauser.

From what I remember there was a chart of certain letters for dates - not just lugers had dates as letters / numbers and then later the 'codes' like S/42 / 42 / byf etc

gov't had things all planned out for the codes / dates

S - Krieg
K - Mauser
G - Mauser

beats me. and how about all them Ss!
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Jerry, I think you nail it. There is no meaning with the letters. Background was to screen the rearmament after Hitler take the Power in 1933.

Maybe they used the enigma machine to sort them out. :D

The K,G & S code for 1934-1936, were also used on '98Ks until they went to open numeric dating in early 1936. TH

The "Q" and "Y" were used up.

Gibson - page 106 I can not find Joop and Dons book to see what they said

Thor

You're showing us another thing of beauty, the photos of your restored Lugers are so beautiful that almost hurt me... :-)

Sergio

+1 on Thor's Luger.