Over stamp/double strike?
 

Is this a common or sometimes thing that happens in stamping lugers, or ?? I saw this on another site and wondered your ideas on this on the 8.
Dave

I also wondered about the 1 being off a bit, too.
Dave

Must have been stamped the morning after pay-day...
dju

Looks like a simple overstrike of the 8 to me, nothing nefarious.

Better asked, why does the "1" on the barrel have a serif and not the "1" on the frame.

Hi Dave, It might help if we knew what gun we're looking at here. Is it a 1936 S/42?
Regards, Norm

Sorry, yes it is a 1936 S 42

Hi Dave,
As I thought. This variation used slightly differing fonts for the barrel and frame serial numbers, and the footed 1 on the barrel and the footless 1 on the frame are both correct. In my opinion there is nothing wrong with this gun (at least what's visible in the single photo), sometimes a double strike is just that, a double strike.
Regards, Norm

Sometimes a "double-strike" can be the result of a hammer bounce from using the wrong type hammer, or holding the hammer or numbering stamp improperly... not necessarily a change in numbers.

Thank you for that info. I was curious about it not thinking it was messed with, but how it could slip pass the inspectors.
Dave

I have a Luger that was double struck with the adjacent numeric digit in the serial number. This one was also a 1936 Mauser. I wonder if this worker did both... Same block, 2,800 guns apart... They have really good Schnapps in Oberndorf... I wonder where they were working in 1937...

The worker probably picked up the wrong die stamp, and then over-stamped the correct number.

The workers were human; made mistakes and were not thinking about collectors 70 or 80 years down the road...



Marc

Evidence would indicate that a double strike was not a reason for failing inspection- which makes sense- it has no impact on the serviceability of the arm.