Dear Ron and alaint,
what do you think, is the toggle implanted on this 1910 Luger or is it normal or even usual that 1910 Lugers (9x19 Parabellum) have this kind of toggles? I don't know how these kind of semi cut toggles are called.
Time after time we (me and my Luger fan friends) meet interesting Lugers here in Turkey. Some of them are badly treated (like the one I shared, nickel Mauser), serial numbers re-stamped, parts changed or remade, but sometimes we see such beautiful pieces that we could not believe our eyes and of course our luck.
Later on I will share my own 1915 DWM Luger Artillery with 1914 made Stock which was a gift from Mr Mauro Baudino (actually we exchanged antics). My Luger has, like the one I shared before (1916 DWM Luger Artillery), all her numbers matching and was not refurbished (that's why she has nearly no color on her anymore because the pre owner carried her all the time with himself, he must be a real Luger fan to have an artillery as a carry pistol).
When it comes to the restoration of this gun particularly; I hear that the gunsmith was from north of Turkey (which means he was Laz) and didn't even taught his own son how to mix the color so fine that the refurbish color is so close the original Luger color, before he died.
I don't know if this gun was at the war in Dardanelles or at any war in which German officers were involved on Ottoman soil.
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