Bob,
I can't thank you enough for the painstaking research you obviously did to come up with the above information.
In my post titled Spare Magazine List in Luger Accssories yesterday I mentioned that I been away from Luger collecting for 22 years and it shows. Back then pretty much all a guy had for reference was Datig, Jones, Kenyon and a few others and of course none of them went into detail like Jan Still and other authors today. Now I know for sure that I can't put off any longer getting Still's book/s.
The mag in question came with the 1940/42 rig, #2700c, I picked up two years ago, my one and only Luger at this point. When the old timer I got it from and I first started talking about the sale my first question to him was: does it have a matching mag/s? and his answer was: well it has two factory mis-matched mags. I knew right away that he had to have been talking to a "Luger collector?" at some point, and he must have chased down this mag and the second one that was with gun, a fxo P08 #2749 + (no suffix) and put them together with the rig. He denied doing that of course and said he got the pistol from a friend who was a WWII vet who personally took it from a German Major he personally captured at Anzio. (Isn't it amazing how many field grade officers carried Lugers?) Great story sez I, how much do you want for it? $850.00 sez he. I told him it was worth a lot more than that and he said he only paid $100.00 for it so the rest is history. He's trying to track down the capture papers for me but the old vet has Alzheimer's and his son doesn't know where the papers are.
The holster with the rig is an R. Ehrhardt dated 1940 and it had some broken stitching so I sent it off to Jerry Burney and when it came back I couldn't tell where the repaired stitches were. He's a master of his art.
Sorry to ramble on so. I'd also love to see the original Pistol for this mag to surface.
Thanks very much again Bob, you're a credit + to the Forum,
Jerry
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