Typo...?
 

Noticed in the Member's Gallery, on page 12, there is an album of one of Tom A's. 1906 navy lugers.

Captions reads that this is a 1906 1st. Issued Unaltered...I think this is a 1906 2nd. Issue (or using Tom's new terminology...a 1906 v 1.2). Gun serial number is # 130...

Or maybe it is a 1st. Issued - Altered (1906 v 1.1)...since the lower safety lever position is not shown...

But if the 1906 Navy lugers were numbered sequentially, how can # 130 be a later-issued piece...I am confused... :confused:

Regards,

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

Good catch Pete,

Its a first issue altered.

Tom A.

Hi Tom,

I know the "typo" was not yours...think John S. set up the photo gallery for your pistol.

I am a bit confused on the serial number of # 130...

In Still's IL book on page 159, he lists the 1906 running in batches from # 69-9912, # 7a-9945a, and # 2b-998b; with a note that 8,000 were produced in 1906 and the remainder in 1908-1914.

With your pistol at # 130 and "altered", does this mean the 1906 1st. Issue Un-altered pistols ran for only a hundred pistols or so...or was yours altered a bit later...?

Any guess as to how many 1st. Issue Unaltered's remained so...?

Thanks for your help...

Regards,

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

Oh Sure Pete... blame the typo on me... not the guy who thinks his laptop keyboard is supposed to drink Jefferson's Reserve...

:D

Please take note that the typo has been corrected... it has only taken TWO years since the album was posted for someone to find that typo... <img border="0" alt="[hiha]" title="" src="graemlins/roflmao.gif" />

Sorry, John S....to take so long.

If this Navy had a Swiss cross, I would have been all over it 2 years ago...

Just recently getting that "urge" deep-down about a Navy pistol...maybe I can find another of those Swiss Navy lugers...seriously...I would like to find a 1906 Navy that got over to Switzerland during its life and got a Swiss-cross added...not one of the Waffenfabrik-USA varieties, though...

Regards,

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