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GerColctor · 03-19-2006, 04:22 PM

The police unit mark: S.D. with Roman numeral, then inventory numbers is for the Dusseldorf Police, not Gestapo, or the SD.

I have a Model 1914 Mauser, a police Luger [1920] and a uniform police officer's Seitengewehr [bayonet], all unit marked S.D. X.xx.

Dusselorf was and is a very large metro area, with a large police force. This marking has, as mentioned above, been bastardized by some "big" dealers to make it into something that it was not, in order to inflate the price.

At a resent gun show, I overheard the dealer at his table attempting to convince a young man who was interesting in buying one of his pistols, that this particular Luger was issued to the "famous" SD. The dealer stated that due to that grip marking, he had to get a "lot" of money for it.
Joe

03-19-2006, 04:22 PM	#7
GerColctor User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: CT & FL Posts: 318 Thanks: 3 Thanked 53 Times in 33 Posts	The police unit mark: S.D. with Roman numeral, then inventory numbers is for the Dusseldorf Police, not Gestapo, or the SD. I have a Model 1914 Mauser, a police Luger [1920] and a uniform police officer's Seitengewehr [bayonet], all unit marked S.D. X.xx. Dusselorf was and is a very large metro area, with a large police force. This marking has, as mentioned above, been bastardized by some "big" dealers to make it into something that it was not, in order to inflate the price. At a resent gun show, I overheard the dealer at his table attempting to convince a young man who was interesting in buying one of his pistols, that this particular Luger was issued to the "famous" SD. The dealer stated that due to that grip marking, he had to get a "lot" of money for it. Joe __________________ It is better to have lived a day as a tiger, then a thousand years as a lamb.