simson mag.
As Ed has said, it is pretty rare to find a matching numbered Luger mag for any P.08 where the mag and gun have parted ways almost a century ago... I know some collectors, who have been searching for 25 years, and they're still looking... With the modern internet, it gives us a new tool to pursue these pesky matching magazines.. and although quick communication and huge amounts of data are now at ones fingertips.. It does nothing to bring back the lost forever magazines that suffered attrition of war and went thru decades of use where no one cared if they survived intact or not... Many are just plain lost to time... stuck away in who know's where.. So, finding a mag that is of the time frame, at least puts you in the game, the same number a bit closer, the same proof a bit closer yet... The numbering on the mag bottom, even though police style could further tie it into a specific date range... I think it more possible then not.. That is just the way I se things.. If the mag was in the gun when Ed first got it, it would more then likely be taken as fact that it did belong to that gun at sometime, and was correct..Ed's an honest guy, that's why we see it here now, for our discussion... It is here that I wish to clarify my view of original history... All the time the Germans had it up and thru WW2, is original history to me, Germans working on German guns... They may have numbered two mags to that gun the day it came off the assembly line, and maybe 10 more over the twenty years it was in there care.. Who knows??
So, I tend to believe.. and I would be quite happy with that combination, especially from that era... Best to all, til...lat'r....GT
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