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Unread 03-11-2012, 10:06 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by padredan View Post
is the chamber stamped? top of the reciever. the germany indicates is was for export. They really did a job of buffing it before blueing, but you see that alot sometimes.
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Originally Posted by mrerick View Post
The breech block was proofed with a crown over "N", which indicates that it was "Nitro" proofed for commercial sale.

There wasn't a date on top of these commercial Luger receivers.

If I'm reading it correctly, your Luger is serial number 8682f. I don't have my reference here, but that would put it somewhere in the early 1920s. My commercial with a "m" suffix was from 1923. Without references, I'd guess 1922.
It is definitely 8682, I do not see any "F". The barrel also sports an 8682 marking... it has some other marking underneath it that I cannot figure out..

Has it been refinished, or did these guns come looking this way??

Edit; Are you referring to the mark below "germany"??? That does look like a cursive "F"...
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