[mrerick]

This Mauser Luger followed me home this weekend from the Raleigh (NC) gun show (yes - the one on the news this weekend).

It's original finish condition (not much blue left on the frame lower) is probably at around 80%, and it's nice and smoothly tight as these Mauser Lugers are.

It's all matching with unnumbered grips and came with an Erfurt magazine with the wooden base switched out (it's blank).

It's a E/655 E/655 TP proofed receiver with a E/63 accepted barrel.

The frame s/n is one of the most uneven die strikes I've seen. 4451x. The frame's characteristics are correct for a 1939, and I don't think it's been fooled with. The frame front length is correct, and properly square and even to the barrel and receiver.

Has anyone ever seen this uneven a set of serial numbers?

Marc