Pete, to add to your post, my understanding is that the barrels installed on the AF Lugers were made in Switzerland, and thus were the foundation for the "made in Switzerland" stamping. From Still Weimar Luger p 269. Still also notes that the serial numbers of these long frame long reciever assemblies should be in the "i" range, the pistols being made in 1921 or 1922. Lugers at Random by Charles Kenyon shows a reported AF Luger attributed to Ralph Shattuck with the comment they were made in Switzerland. Shattuck's sports a disc on the magazine :-)
I would be interested if there is existing documentation of these "AF Lugers" ever leaving the DWM factory or being imported by Abercrombie and Fitch.
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