Hi Thor,
Welcome to the Luger Forum and thank you for your first posting (a Swiss luger one at that).
Do you have the capability to take photos of your Swiss luger ? If yes, you can send me a Private Message and I will give you my email address and I could post up your photos for you.
If photos are not possible, could you give us a start at some key information such as :
1. Is your Swiss luger a M1900 (with their distinctive dished-toggle knobs) or a M1906 with the flat and checked toggle knobs ?
2. Could you give us an indication of the full serial number on your luger ? You can leave the last number or two as an "x" if you want to keep the luger's full serial number private. For example, you could report your serial number as # 18xx or # 256xx, etc. This will give us an idea of the proper model desination of your luger and what year is would have been made.
3. What stamping do your see on the top of the receiver's chamber (where the barrel screws into the receiver) ?
Sometimes the chamber will have a Swiss cross/sunburst stamping, sometimes a Swiss cross/shield stamping, or sometimes the chamber will be blank.
4. What stamping do you see on the top surface of the togle joint ?
Sometimes you will see a very stylized and scriptic "DWM". Sometimes you might see " + Waffenfabrik Bern" along 3 lines. Or a different style of a Swiss cross'shield stamping.
Let us know and we will try to "zero in" on your luger's identity...
p.s. Original Swiss lugers in 9 mm are quite rare. My guess would be yours might have had its 7,65 mm barrel replaced after the 9 mm ammunition become more widely used and popular. Photos of any barrel markings or stampings would help to find out about your barrel as well. Or describe what you see on your barrel.
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