Gold Luger - Does Anyone Know Anything About This Luger
 

Does anyone know anything about this Luger? I am interested in knowing what is the translation on the left grip award plate is. The picture is not very clear but any translation or a partial would be helpful. Enquiring minds want to know. The picture is from an internet google search for "gold engraved luger". Thanks.

Daddydogg

Rock Island
http://www.rockislandauction.com/vie...id/51/lid/1584

I like the grips, the rest is nice, just don't like the gold :)

It has a police sear safety, so I would say GI post war, but would like to know what the inscription says also :) oh, found below :)

Description

Thanks Ed. I knew somebody on the forum would have the answer to my question. This gun is drop dead gorgeous.

I like it too!

I share Edward point of view.

Herebelow I'll paste again a very interesting link about Collecting engraved Luger Pistols or caveat emptor ! by Klaus Leibnitz, I think it's worth reading it.

http://www.leibnitz-online.de/resour...ols_17.09.04-1

Sergio

Yah, yah, yah, but how's it shoot?
dju

Back two years ago, a friend wants to buy his first pistol and asked me "what's the price range of pistols".. I told him "most of them were a few hundred, but some expensive pistols could cost buyer tens of thousands".. He's very surprised and tried to imagine what an expensive one should look like, "Is luxury pistol decorated with gemstones?".. "No. They are usually decorated with engraving on steel. They are special interest items, not guns in conventional sense anymore".

A very interesting quote from this whitepaper:

"The term Parabellum Pistole (from the Latin phrase for war) was derived from the telegraphic address of the manufacturer DWM"


Emphasis mine - does anyone know anything about this? First time I've heard it...

"Para bellum" means prepare for war, coming from the Latin proverb "si vis pacem para bellum " if you want peace prepare for the war. Was the code name of Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionenfabrik with the German War Cabinet, some other people say that it was the DWM telegraphic address (Parabellum Berlin).

Sergio

tsk, tsk - its in all the older books and I am sure newer ones, plus 2 or 3 user members signature lines :thumbup:

Guys, I added the emphasis for a reason - I know what parabellum means, what about DWM's "telegraphic address"? From Sergio's quote, I ASS-U-ME the address indeed was "Parabellum"...

It was. But it was also a brand name of DWM.
I own a 1904 copy of a DWM letter with the Parabellum telegraph address.

I agree that an engraved Luger, with gold plating, is the ultimate in gauche... :rolleyes:

But it could be worse...It could be a Type 14 with water buffalo horn grips... :)

Just re-read Preface and Chapter I of "Parabellum is back 1945-2000" (just ordered such a pistol, not arrived yet). The book explained the exotic word "Parabellum" -- it's DWM's brand name. To promote this brand, DWM adopted it as the company's telegraph address. Make lots of sense.

Bought the pistol, partially because it worked great in my memory, partially because I have this book :) Reading a gun book without a sample in hand is a little bit boring..

Positive, as Alvin and Vlim explained: "Parabellum, Berlin"

Sergio :thumbup:

How cool! Kinda like Steinway's stock symbol of "LVB" for Luwig Van Beethoven!

Here ya go :)

Vlim

Great, that's really something special to have and keep!

Sergio

Not unusual for a "wire" address back in the day;
remember - from the '60s-

Wire
Paladin - San Francisco

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