M1900 Swiss Luger Stamping...
 

Doc Fisher and I have been having an off-line discussion about M1900 Swiss lugers having the last 2-digits of their serial number stamped on the right side of the magazine button/lever...

Just trying to figure out when this practice was stopped. A local luger authority tells us by pistol # 1000, but I suspect (from photos in several German-text Swiss luger books) that this practice may have disappeared earlier...maybe by # 400 - 500 or so...

Just wondering if others know...

Regards,

Pete... <img border="0" alt="[typing]" title="" src="graemlins/yltype.gif" />

Pete, Your proably close to the right range. I suspect that it happen around the same time that they releive the frame mag well to take the standard PO8 mag with the staked in, rather than screwed in, follower button. TH

Well I'll be darned...after saying all of this, Doc Fisher reports seeing a nice 1900 early Swiss that was floating around the last Las Vegas show...serial # 861 and it is stamped with "61" on the right side of the magazine release spindle... http://forums.lugerforum.com/lfuploa...hand_copy3.gif...now I don't know what to think...

Regards,

Pete... <img border="0" alt="[typing]" title="" src="graemlins/yltype.gif" />

Pete, It's possible that any luger could have a numbered mag release, if it were numbered to keep the right pices together during a rework. TH

Pete,
Check your Rutsch book, p. 169: he mentions regular marking up to s/n ~1000.
Cheers, Panda

Hello Panda,

Yes, you are correct...

V. Bobba's book on Swiss luger on pages 82-83 even shows # 1420...a M1900 Swiss luger with such stampings...so it seems to have gone even higher that # 1000...

Regards,

Pete... <img border="0" alt="[typing]" title="" src="graemlins/yltype.gif" />