Mauser Police Luger
 

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Question for forum members: I recently purchased from Legacy a
P.08 Mauser Banner Police E/L dated 1942 serial number 2430y. My question is this: The gun appears original and correct in all respects but has the following odd feature; the ejector is straw
finished but the remainder of the gun is correctly salt-blued as it
should be. Is this an occurrence that could have taken place during
assembly? As I believe that Police Lugers at Mauser were probably (or may have been) assembled as commercial Lugers,
that perhaps they used an ejector having a straw finish, either by
mistake or maybe due to a shortage of blue ejectors at a late date
for Mauser Luger production.
Any input from forum members will be greatly appreciated.
My e-mail is: p38rotcelloc@hotmail.com
Sorry, no photos.

Thank you

Fred

Is it strawed or a reddish color? Bill

The ejector is a non-numbered part, which could have been changed out at any time in the pistol's history. A strawed ejector is in no way, "incorrect" for your gun.

Mauser Police Luger
 

The ejector is straw, nor a reddish color.

All (so far); thank you for your input. As I stated, this Luger appears correct in all other respects, but the straw ejector seems
a bit strange. It appears that the gun has not been messed with in any way, and is about 98% finish, all matching and has all
the correct E/N proofs as well as the E/L police acceptance.

Again, thank you for the input.

Fred

also, if memory serves me correct, sometimes you will find Banner Commercials with strawed parts - am I remembering correctly?

:)

Yes, ED most, if not all, Mauser Banner Commercials has straw
small parts, but the Police Banners usually should have all salt-
blue parts, but since the Police Banners were assembled in the
plant area that also assembled the commercial guns, it is
possible, I suppose that a straw ejector could have been assembled into a Police E/L.

By the way, I have your excellent book on Police Lugers, and I
find it a great reference on the subject.

Fred

Fred, I guess a bunch of people are saying, Ed co-wrote and the book and doesn't know, what an idiot :eek:
But I'll paraphrase a friend of mine - "i quote parts of my book, since I can't remember everything, its why I wrote a book!" Jan C. Still :thumbup:

I don't think a strawed ejector would be original on a 1942 E/L Police Banner. All the Military and Police I have seen in that year have the reddish color. Strawed on Commercial yes.

Easy enough to "fix"; I expect it is a replacement though, and would not worry about it-
since as pointed out is is not numbered and could be period.

Sure wouldn't keep me up at night.;)

The ejector itself is a spring. The reddish color is somewhat close to what would result from its being heat treated ("drawn down") to make it a spring, the temperature necessary for which is much greater than that at which a part is strawed. It may be that military ejectors occasionally skipped the subsequent bluing... but this is conjecture.

It might have been better if all 4 normally straw parts were present. I do have an exc reddish blued extractor available @$50 or would offer partial trade for your strawed one. TH

Tom, thank you but I think I will keep it as is for now. I appreciate the
offer. If I change my mind later, I will contact you.

Thank you

Fred

Tom, I need an ejector, not extractor. e-mail me if you have a
reddish blue or blue EJECTOR and I will probably take it. Original
only please.

My e-mail is: p38rotcelloc@hotmail.com.

Thank you

Fred

ithaccartist

Thank you for your very informative post. Never really knew that the so many different colors were caused by the change in temperature.

Joe

Did we ever see a picture of the OP's ejector?