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bill m · 09-20-2001, 01:32 AM

I would have to agree with Bob Simpson. Just because the reported serial number range is in a book does not mean that you can not find any lower or higher. The most important thing is: is the gun real or put together? After an examination one should be able to tell if it is an original artillery.

Mistakes are made in all books and from the time of a book being published until today, new information and more contacts are made.

For instance, Still writes that there are 1939 S/42 Lugers with a type 3 test eagle (eagle swastika) in the R block. No one that I know of has ever seen one of these. They all have the type two test eagle (eagle) on the receiver and barrel. Sometimes things are reported that are not correct and just keep getting passed on and recorded as something they are not.

Another example is a pistol that I own -- 8012 Y -- a two digit Banner (42) that is listed both in Still's book and Costanso's book as a police gun, but is actually a commercial Luger as it has no sear safety or Eagle L police stamp.

09-20-2001, 01:32 AM	#3
bill m User Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 385 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: 1914 CHAMBER DATED DWM ARTILLERY I would have to agree with Bob Simpson. Just because the reported serial number range is in a book does not mean that you can not find any lower or higher. The most important thing is: is the gun real or put together? After an examination one should be able to tell if it is an original artillery. Mistakes are made in all books and from the time of a book being published until today, new information and more contacts are made. For instance, Still writes that there are 1939 S/42 Lugers with a type 3 test eagle (eagle swastika) in the R block. No one that I know of has ever seen one of these. They all have the type two test eagle (eagle) on the receiver and barrel. Sometimes things are reported that are not correct and just keep getting passed on and recorded as something they are not. Another example is a pistol that I own -- 8012 Y -- a two digit Banner (42) that is listed both in Still's book and Costanso's book as a police gun, but is actually a commercial Luger as it has no sear safety or Eagle L police stamp.