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Unread 01-20-2006, 11:58 AM   #2
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Hello Juhani -

Very nice Luger . . . . . . . and all matching! Congratulations.

I believe all, or almost all, of the Finnish contract Parabellums were originally the variation that Jan Still refers to as "Alphabet Commercials" having a 4 digit + alpha character as a serial number. You can do a search on this forum for "Alpahbet Commercial" for additional information on this version.

Dwight is probably the expert on this type of Luger, but I believe that they left Germany with unmarked wood-bottom magazines. The size and shape of the numbers on your mag bottoms are not consistent with markings on earlier Imperial Lugers. It would be my guess that the magazines were numbered in Finland.

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