Aftermarket Luger Magazine.
 

I ran across this magazine the other day and I'm pretty sure it's aftermarket but I was wondering if anybody had an opinion as to the maker. It's the only one I've ever seen with a parkerized finish. The base and the cartridge lifter are both cast out of what I would call pot metal. (Melted down P-51 Mustangs?) It has no markings on it at all and has a round coil compression spring.

Any chance it IS pot metal for one of the Japanese model guns? Back in May I found an aftermarket mag that was clearly marked “Made in Holland” but it works great after a little love given to it from G.T.

No idea where they come/came from; but the concentric circle button shows up pretty frequently in aftermarket mags.

Numrich is currently offering an aftermarket magazine with an unmarked aluminum bottom. Might be one of those. :rolleyes:

I've seen the Holland ones, this is a pretty nice mag, but the parkerizing kinda thru me. Thought it might be East German or God knows what. It works just fine in my Luger.

Base actually looks more like aluminum than pot metal. I have several that I am sure are original but sure look like pot metal...

Need to ask GT about that...

mag pictured!
 

Hi to all! The mag pictured is a post war "MADE IN DENMARK" mag and they are sometimes marked as such, others not, like the one pictured.. They are not bad, but usually have to be messed with a little to make dependable... The follower button with the concentric circles is a dead giveaway as to origin... best to all, til….lat'r…..GT....:thumbup:

I have one exactly like the one pictured EXCEPT mine is stamped "Made in Denmark". It came in a Luger that I purchased many moons ago. It has been a good functioning mag for me. It was one of my best mags, until I joined this forum and found out about GT and his "mag magic"!! Now I have a few of his marvels to use.

FWIW, the 'Made in Holland' marked magazines were made by MFT (Metaalwarenfabriek Tilburg) in the Netherlands. The same as the post war Mauser magazines, which they also made. MFT also produced the post war HSc magazines for Mauser.

Thanks for all the feedback, I was pretty sure it was aftermarket, but pretty good quality, very similar to the pre-WW 2 magazines used before the FXO type. My favorite mag. is the FXO with the aluminum bottom.

Interesting also that it has only one retaining pin in the bottom, which seems to me to be a sign of an earlier mag. Between the wars manufacture sounds right to me.

Ever the bastion of zinc alloy use, Erma toggle pistols all had cast Zamak bottoms. The earlier models of their .22s also used a stub that sticks up at the back end of their pot metal followers to catch the breech block--a very rudimentary hold-open. The pistol snaps shut when the mag is removed. Erma mags for the P.08 have plastic bottoms and steel followers, and are of very good quality and performance.