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Johnny Peppers · 10-30-2001, 10:52 PM

The letter suffix commercial DWM's did not start a new serial number series at the beginning of the year like the WWI military Lugers. After the 1920 and 1921 dated commercials with ns, a, and b suffix, the commercial Lugers jumped to the i suffix and continued production straight through to the u suffix where Mauser took over in the v suffix block in 1930. Some of the first pistols manufactured by Mauser were the later series of Stoeger Lugers, and these had DWM marked toggles.

10-30-2001, 10:52 PM	#5
Johnny Peppers User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Calion, Arkansas Posts: 1,042 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: Good breakdown John The letter suffix commercial DWM's did not start a new serial number series at the beginning of the year like the WWI military Lugers. After the 1920 and 1921 dated commercials with ns, a, and b suffix, the commercial Lugers jumped to the i suffix and continued production straight through to the u suffix where Mauser took over in the v suffix block in 1930. Some of the first pistols manufactured by Mauser were the later series of Stoeger Lugers, and these had DWM marked toggles.