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Originally Posted by skeeter4206
Look on Simpson ltd. They have a pretty big variety of lugers on there. I think I saw one earlier that actaully had the police star stamped on it somewhere and had some police unit markings. Either there or ebay. But I think its Simpson.
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Thanks, I check in at Simpson often, though that is not the place to always get the best price, they only had 2 VoPo's neither close to what I am looking for, and both "on hold". However I appreciate the advice.
As to this one, in the link why I thought it may be an East German (DDR) refurb but not issued to VoPo b/c:
1) I have seen those what???, rosewood looking???, re-issued grips on East German lugers before (though they usually have the bulls-eye bakelite, but certainly not always) done by maybe Century or early-on in the DDR.
2) That serial re-numbering on the lower was obviously done with some machining not just some dingbat w/ an electro-pencil, most imports I have seen were just left mismached, it would take a real anal importer to deface (in some places crudely) the original numbers to match the new ones, except the sideplate of course, which was electro-penciled.
3) That mag could have the 2/1001 on it having that silver looking base.
4) Just given the vast variation of E. German reworking, I figured maybe it was redone in the DDR, shipped to another Warsaw Pact nation, until Century found it after 1991.
5) As for the Russian "X" mark sometimes these were placed on the mag bottom, so if the mag base were replaced after the war, so goes the "X"
Now, though I have been watching DDR lugers for years, you guys are the experts,,,,,so fire away at my ideas, I have thick skin
