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Originally Posted by Edward Tinker
Well, the serial number and suffix would be on the front of the frame, if rusted away; then the answer I gave you is about as close as you are going to get...
You didn't answer where it came from?
As it has a later WW2 era magazine, I wondered where it was found?
ed
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Hi Ed,
You said in your earlier post:
"Well, hard to say, if no date on the receiver then it is likely post 1921 but before 1930".
I thought it couldn't be after 1914 because it doesn't have the stock lug attachment which I understood was added during 1914. Also I don't think it's possible for a deeply stamped series of numbers to have completely disappeared from the barrel AND the frame. The barrel maybe as it is quite corroded but the front of the frame isn't that bad and absolutely no ghost of an impression there.
The story I just got about this luger is not complete but it was given to my friend by someone who said it was found in a river in Germany without the trigger assembly. What year it was found I don't know yet but from the condition I imagine it was long after the end of WW2. I say WW2 because of the magazine which was in the gun when found. It's hard to nail down these stories as you know and they do tend to change a bit in the re-telling over the years. It has been suggested that German officers about to be captured would remove the trigger assembly and throw pistol and trigger in opposite directions to avoid having a working gun fall into enemy hands but who knows?