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postino -

If someone else has already cleared this up, please disregard my post.

But in late 1934 Mauser began making Lugers with a "K" over the chamber as a secret date code to conceal the fact that Germany was rearming. (And this was in violation of the treaty which ended WWI - "The Treaty of Versailles")

Then in 1935 they began using the secret date code of "G" for the same reasons.

Starting in 1936 there was no longer any pretense about what was going on, and they started openly dating the receivers with four-digit dates, as with the 1936 - S/42 code Luger, etc.

I used to wonder about this too until I got Still's excellent Third Reich Lugers book.

Ron