New Luger purchase
 

Some 'Frankenluger' purchases...The Artillery is already up at Lugerman getting a restoration...

1921 dwm...

1916 DWM nickel plate

Cool acquisitions. Congrats.
But, I never saw an over polished, nickel plated Luger that didn't make me want to cry.

Yeah, I really wasn't planning on purchasing it when I dropped off the artillery to get restored ( I don't really mind restoring 'parts' guns and Lugerman does some exceptional work ). He had just finished up with it (probably picked it up cheap ) and brought it out to show me...and I fell in lust with it. He didn't it any way represent it as number a matching luger and I wouldn't have cared anyway. It does have a lot of '99s' all over the gun...but it has a 'S/42' stamped on the barrel length-wise in between the barrel matchmarks and the serial number...weird.

I realize the luger community at large frowns upon chrome plating lugers. It must've been a mess...anyway, it's found a good home.

The S/42 barrel is a WW2 armorer's replacement barrel

Thanks for responding...considering what little info I possess about lugers, I don't recall ever seeing that s/42 stamp on anyone else's luger. I just assumed someone was trying to pull something in the past. Since the right side upper receiver has a crown over RC, is it safe to assume the barrel replacement was done at Erfurt Arsenal?

Just googled and found a post from phila dated Aug 6, 2023 #9 that he had seen 42, S/42 and E655? stamped barrels and believed they all came out of the Heer Depot...

Had to look up 'Heer'...means army in english...guess I'll have to learn German, too...lol.

Found another stamp on the barrel...left side at about 1:30- 2 o'clock...a stick eagle with two numbers I think...last number is a 3, the first number is heavily buffed out but appears to be either a 5 or a 6...