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Originally Posted by siegersallee
1) minor repair to the underside of the rail on the RHS.
I have tried to capture this in one of the pics. Just look under the rail around the trigger area: a solderd repair.
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That is not a "repair". Your Luger is an early military that was manufactured without a hold open device. It had been eliminated as a cost cutting measure when the Luger was first produced for the German army. Later the lack of a hold open was found not to be a good idea so it was reintroduced and many of the earlier production guns were retrofitted with the hold open. The "repair" on your Erfurt is an arsenal retrofit of the hold open and you can see a small acceptance mark next to the pin.
A beautiful Erfurt by the way. You did very well.