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Pete Ebbink · 12-03-2006, 02:32 PM

Hi Albert,

What I do find somewhat puzzling about the Baby lugers, from a technical perspective is :

1. All Baby's seem to have no "DWM" on the top of the front toggle link. If these 4 (or 12 or so...) pistols were DWM's attempt to enter a crowded "pocket pistol" market place in Germany and elsewhere in the 1920's and these Baby lugers were to be used as "marketing & salesman" specimens, I would think DWM would certainly add their DWM-logo to such important pistols.

2. The lack of "dicing" of the metal on the flats of the toggle knobs is quite odd. Seems like a dicing pattern would provide more friction to prevent finger/thumb slippage when cycling the toggle action. Even the GL 7-shot Baby luger has full dicing on the more-narrowed toggle knobs.

If DWM was experimenting with less "dicing" to reduce machining time/costs and this new "pattern" shown on the 1920's Baby lugers proved to be a positive experiment, would one not expect to see that carried over into the production means of the regular luger production ?

The 1920's Baby lugers seems to have only a slight pattern of groves placed radially on the edges of the "knobs".

One should note the Swiss Bern folks decided to do away with all dicing on the toggle knobs of their M1929 designs to reduce production costs/time. Once in a while you will run across a M1929 that has had some rudimentary "dicing" added by a Owner or his/her gunsmith...so for some, the smooth toggle knobs were not desirable.

12-03-2006, 02:32 PM	#29
Pete Ebbink User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: The USA Posts: 5,919 Thanks: 0 Thanked 6 Times in 4 Posts	Hi Albert, What I do find somewhat puzzling about the Baby lugers, from a technical perspective is : 1. All Baby's seem to have no "DWM" on the top of the front toggle link. If these 4 (or 12 or so...) pistols were DWM's attempt to enter a crowded "pocket pistol" market place in Germany and elsewhere in the 1920's and these Baby lugers were to be used as "marketing & salesman" specimens, I would think DWM would certainly add their DWM-logo to such important pistols. 2. The lack of "dicing" of the metal on the flats of the toggle knobs is quite odd. Seems like a dicing pattern would provide more friction to prevent finger/thumb slippage when cycling the toggle action. Even the GL 7-shot Baby luger has full dicing on the more-narrowed toggle knobs. If DWM was experimenting with less "dicing" to reduce machining time/costs and this new "pattern" shown on the 1920's Baby lugers proved to be a positive experiment, would one not expect to see that carried over into the production means of the regular luger production ? The 1920's Baby lugers seems to have only a slight pattern of groves placed radially on the edges of the "knobs". One should note the Swiss Bern folks decided to do away with all dicing on the toggle knobs of their M1929 designs to reduce production costs/time. Once in a while you will run across a M1929 that has had some rudimentary "dicing" added by a Owner or his/her gunsmith...so for some, the smooth toggle knobs were not desirable.