It Appears The Most Restored Commercial
 

I checked our the 1902 Fat Barrel Luger and over half were restored. Few nice original are even offered! The restored ones are almost too good!! The straw usually on the trigger is often omitted~ I'll post some samples~Eric http://www.checkpointcharlies.com/ec...arrel-9mm.html A nice restoration from dear old Charlie~

Buffed out 1/2 of the stamps on the barrel too. No haloes either. Makes one wonder how bad off the pistol was before the re-blue.

I've never seen an original fat barrel with halos or earlier 1900 test pieces! I own them both~

Even on minty original 1902 Fat Barrel Lugers the BUG barrel markings are frequently very lightly struck. Like Eric said, there are no halos.
Ron

Ron, This I Find Unique~
 

The last two digits of the Serial Number~

The only blemish evident is the two lines above that I haven't seen on my other lugers! What could be the cause, please? Eric

Ron and Eric:
Why no halos? Numbers struck before bluing?
dju

That is correct. The early pistols were fully serialized before bluing, hence had no halos. Sometime shortly after the beginning of production for the second navy contract the practice changed to bluing the barrels before they were assembled and serialized. So, ones made after ~1908 have halos on the barrel s/ns.

You indicate that "shortly" after the beginning of the second navy contract, the change was made! Were any 1908 navy lack a halo before the change? Eric~

Update 1902 DWM Fat Barrrel,
 

#22713 First DWM Commercial 9mm~

Note, aprox 500-600 total~