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Ponyman · 03-31-2006, 06:31 PM

I have a stainless Luger with Grip Safety, purchased from another Forum member (thru the WTS service) about a year ago.

It's a 100th Year Commemorative Issue produced in Y2K. Black-finish overall but with gold-toned stainless small parts: trigger, takedown, thumb safety lever, mag release, ejector and (faithful to the straw on the 1900) the extractor. Homage was paid to the 1900's dished toggle knobs by grinding down the standard knobs - a rather minimal effort. Somewhere along the line, the original extractor and breechblock with crossarm (present on my 1993 "Mitchell") were reworked to resemble the original with no crossarm (not exclusively for the commemorative, as the straight-sided extractor is also present on my year-less black-finished Stoeger AE with LUGER scrolled on the left side of the slide) with very appropriate results for the commemorative. The strangest feature is that the Grip Safety Lever appears to have been purchased from Mauser: it is identical to the Swiss-style lever on my 29-70 Parabellum, with the wrap-around backside which requires inletting of the right grip panel. The top tip of the safety lever (black finished on the 29-70) is bright stainless (silver-tone), as they probably could not apply the gold-tone process without damaging the black finish on the lower portion. The vestigial stock lug (necessary grooves in the sides are missing), characteristic of all other stainless Lugers, was completely removed for this issue. The chamber marking is the American Eagle with "1900" above the bird and "2000" below. The top of the barrel is marked "NATIONAL AUTOMATIC PISTOL COLLECTORS ASSOCIATION". No attempt was made to reproduce the right-side toggle-lock of the 1900.

It's a .30 cal with 120 mm barrel - looks really nice displayed with my 1900 of same measurements.

The "white space" in this pic was necessary because the pattern of the carpet I shot against did not allow much compression in the .jpg format. Areas of solid color allow max compression, and shrunk the file below the 200 kByte limit.

I cropped the top and bottom of this one, and removed a horizontal strip from the middle. In case you're wondering, the props are plate holders.

03-31-2006, 06:31 PM	#15
Ponyman User Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Atlantic County, NJ, USA Posts: 138 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	I have a stainless Luger with Grip Safety, purchased from another Forum member (thru the WTS service) about a year ago. It's a 100th Year Commemorative Issue produced in Y2K. Black-finish overall but with gold-toned stainless small parts: trigger, takedown, thumb safety lever, mag release, ejector and (faithful to the straw on the 1900) the extractor. Homage was paid to the 1900's dished toggle knobs by grinding down the standard knobs - a rather minimal effort. Somewhere along the line, the original extractor and breechblock with crossarm (present on my 1993 "Mitchell") were reworked to resemble the original with no crossarm (not exclusively for the commemorative, as the straight-sided extractor is also present on my year-less black-finished Stoeger AE with LUGER scrolled on the left side of the slide) with very appropriate results for the commemorative. The strangest feature is that the Grip Safety Lever appears to have been purchased from Mauser: it is identical to the Swiss-style lever on my 29-70 Parabellum, with the wrap-around backside which requires inletting of the right grip panel. The top tip of the safety lever (black finished on the 29-70) is bright stainless (silver-tone), as they probably could not apply the gold-tone process without damaging the black finish on the lower portion. The vestigial stock lug (necessary grooves in the sides are missing), characteristic of all other stainless Lugers, was completely removed for this issue. The chamber marking is the American Eagle with "1900" above the bird and "2000" below. The top of the barrel is marked "NATIONAL AUTOMATIC PISTOL COLLECTORS ASSOCIATION". No attempt was made to reproduce the right-side toggle-lock of the 1900. It's a .30 cal with 120 mm barrel - looks really nice displayed with my 1900 of same measurements. The "white space" in this pic was necessary because the pattern of the carpet I shot against did not allow much compression in the .jpg format. Areas of solid color allow max compression, and shrunk the file below the 200 kByte limit. I cropped the top and bottom of this one, and removed a horizontal strip from the middle. In case you're wondering, the props are plate holders. __________________ "The Constitution is intended for use by a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the governance of any other." ~ John Quincy Adams