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Mauser720 · 01-21-2011, 06:41 PM

There is also information about these so-called "sneak Lugers" in the Gortz/Sturgess book "Pistole Parabellum", vol. II, pages 536 and 537.

According to them, the pistols were made by BKIW who could deliver them at prices below the Simson prices and could be termed "non-military" since they were intended for police use. "It would seem that the whole subterfuge of dispensing with revealing markings, such as the year of manufacture and producer identification, was to deceive the public, including the management of the Simson company and the watchful liberal press." (page #536)

"American collectors in the past have coined the term "sneak" Luger for this Parabellum variant, supposing the need for concealment of origin to have been related to initial rearmament under the Nazi in 1933 and 1934, and citing further the presence of HWaA acceptance marks as proof of their intended military destination. This is to misunderstand both their date of manufacture and the reasons, outlined above, for the clandestine appearance of these guns and their mode of procurement and inspection." (page #537)

01-21-2011, 06:41 PM	#12
Mauser720 User Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Kansas Posts: 535 Thanks: 18 Thanked 49 Times in 33 Posts	There is also information about these so-called "sneak Lugers" in the Gortz/Sturgess book "Pistole Parabellum", vol. II, pages 536 and 537. According to them, the pistols were made by BKIW who could deliver them at prices below the Simson prices and could be termed "non-military" since they were intended for police use. "It would seem that the whole subterfuge of dispensing with revealing markings, such as the year of manufacture and producer identification, was to deceive the public, including the management of the Simson company and the watchful liberal press." (page #536) "American collectors in the past have coined the term "sneak" Luger for this Parabellum variant, supposing the need for concealment of origin to have been related to initial rearmament under the Nazi in 1933 and 1934, and citing further the presence of HWaA acceptance marks as proof of their intended military destination. This is to misunderstand both their date of manufacture and the reasons, outlined above, for the clandestine appearance of these guns and their mode of procurement and inspection." (page #537) __________________ Mauser720 - Ron "Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it."