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Pete Ebbink · 12-12-2007, 03:43 PM

Hi Vern,

http://www.simpsonltd.com/product_in...oducts_id=4277

It sure looks like a honest, worn gun...something you want to see in a gun that saw duty in the humid SE Asia area.

Do you have "The Luger Book" by John Walters. Page 246 has some useful info.

If you do not have it, let me know and I would be happy to scan/email it to you.

There are two things I would want to do for myself if I were considering a purchase :

1. Ask the Simpson shop to send me a photo of the back of the frame to show the Siamese markings.

2. Get it straight in my mind if one would expect the "Mauser hump" on a 1936 dated pistol or not...(I just do not follow Mauser stuff and do not know).

Bill Munis, a LF member whom tragically passed away way too early (only in his early 50's), sent me this email many years ago when I ask him about the appearance of the "hump".

Here was his email to me from 5-2002 time frame :

" Hi Pete,
The "Mauser Bumb" -- I call it the mauser hump -- is usually found on the early K-dates, but is actually scattered throughout the whole K-date production. Later later K-dates seldom have the "hump" though and all G-dates and 1936's do not. In mid 1937 the "hump" became a standard production proceedure and it is found on all Mausers after this. The 1937
S/42 is a neat year with lots of variations -- one of them is the strawed guns with a hump -- as all strawed 1937's did not have the hump until the very last ones -- a transition gun -- and all the all blued 1937 S/42's have the hump. Hope this answeres your question. If not, write me back and I'll try to help you out. -- Bill Munis "

p.s.

Here is Joop's study of the v-series Mauser guns over on Jan Still's gun boards...some mention of the Siamese guns :

http://luger.gunboards.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=8981

12-12-2007, 03:43 PM	#2
Pete Ebbink User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: The USA Posts: 5,919 Thanks: 0 Thanked 6 Times in 4 Posts	Hi Vern, http://www.simpsonltd.com/product_in...oducts_id=4277 It sure looks like a honest, worn gun...something you want to see in a gun that saw duty in the humid SE Asia area. Do you have "The Luger Book" by John Walters. Page 246 has some useful info. If you do not have it, let me know and I would be happy to scan/email it to you. There are two things I would want to do for myself if I were considering a purchase : 1. Ask the Simpson shop to send me a photo of the back of the frame to show the Siamese markings. 2. Get it straight in my mind if one would expect the "Mauser hump" on a 1936 dated pistol or not...(I just do not follow Mauser stuff and do not know). Bill Munis, a LF member whom tragically passed away way too early (only in his early 50's), sent me this email many years ago when I ask him about the appearance of the "hump". Here was his email to me from 5-2002 time frame : " Hi Pete, The "Mauser Bumb" -- I call it the mauser hump -- is usually found on the early K-dates, but is actually scattered throughout the whole K-date production. Later later K-dates seldom have the "hump" though and all G-dates and 1936's do not. In mid 1937 the "hump" became a standard production proceedure and it is found on all Mausers after this. The 1937 S/42 is a neat year with lots of variations -- one of them is the strawed guns with a hump -- as all strawed 1937's did not have the hump until the very last ones -- a transition gun -- and all the all blued 1937 S/42's have the hump. Hope this answeres your question. If not, write me back and I'll try to help you out. -- Bill Munis " p.s. Here is Joop's study of the v-series Mauser guns over on Jan Still's gun boards...some mention of the Siamese guns : http://luger.gunboards.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=8981