My weekend question??
 

A friend of a friend called me today from Indiana. Has a 1918 DWM marked 1920 with sear safety and mag safety. don't know if the mag safety is operational or not.


question: the pistol has an aluminum mag base with the number 1 and the serial number of the pistol on it. When did the aluminum mag bases come into use. TIA David.

Re: My weekend question??
 

Ifn ah membr kerectly it wuz rite afta they quit usin tha wood wunz.

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And if ikalculat korectly daat was befour day started usinthe plastik ones write. David

David, U is kerect ! (EOM)
 

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David,


The pistol is a Weimar stamped Army pistol (the 1920 property stamp indicates this). At some point it was transferred to a Police and the Sear Safety and magazine Safety added. VERY few magazines safeties were left intact. To make them inoperative, some just had the metal contact with the trigger "clipped" so it would not operate; mine is like this. As to the magazines being correct, it sounds like it may be. In the late 1920s they changed from the wood base to the aluminim base and stamped the pistol S/N on the base and the Number 1, 2, & 3 for the magazines. The number 1 was the main mag and the 2 & 3 were the spares respectivly.


I love these old WWI, Weimar and Nazi used Lugers. They really have a long history of sevice.


Marvin

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U are bad spellars. Did u go to publik skool?

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David, Since the Police added mags to their pistols on an as needed basis, almost anything is possible, but if the mag was added when the sear & mag safetly rework was done (post 1933), I would expect a nickel plated Schmeisser marked mag with some type of police acceptance on it. What type of mag do you have and any markings on it?

Re: Publik Skool...
 

The reason they spell as they do, is that they only went to school twice... and the second time, the teacher wasn't there!!

Hi Steve
 

"Spelling miztakes" are common. What is uncommon to this Board are folksâ?? willingness to contribute information and share knowledge without the fear of reprisals from spelling nihilists.


Sew their.

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Tom the gun was being described to me over the phone and he will not be able to show it to me until October. But he said the mag appeared nickle.

Re: Publik Skool...
 

Only the 'dull of mind' are limited to a single way of spelling a word. Don't quote me on this.

Re: Publik Skool...
 

I only worry about spelling when writing to my literate friends, but since I have no friends, I don't worry about it.

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Who cares about spelling

fish spend their entire lives in schools aand they cant spell "DAM"

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