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Originally Posted by guns3545

This thread on the other site may also be of interest.

http://luger.gunboards.com/showthrea...hlight=persian

BTW, a letter from Dr. Gminder in my files confirms that 50 cutaways were produced. Mine is SN 37.

Enjoy,

John

..thanks, here's some excerpts:

We know that approximately 1000 artillery lugers were produced by DWM for Persian or Iran as it is known today. Do we know how many of these 1000 were brought back to the world by any means? Do we have a listing of these guns? We do have the figures for the Siamese artillery lugers. 100 produced and shipped to Siam. 74 bought and imported to the US by the Odin Corporation.I don't know if anyone has tried to document these guns and their locations. Bill H.

Replies:

Joop and Don did some work tracking down the Persian Contract guns, P.08, LP.08 and the Cutaways.

It appears that Chremner of the UK bought a bunch of P.08s and maybe LPs?? They sorted the junk from the good stuff and moved the pieces out through various dealers.

Their only comment on the Artilleries specifically was that 120 of them were acquired by the German firm Frankonia together with a lot of accessories and leather ware and were offered in 1977. These specimens had specific markings required by the German authorities placed on them.

Nothing is specifically mentioned about the remainder but I can tell you that my Persian LP.08 does NOT have these German marks so came to the USA through another channel.

Of interest due to the very high ratio, 39 of the 50 cutaways produced by Mauser for this contract were imported into this country in the 80s by Allen Kelley of Ridgefield Connecticut and 25 were advertised by SN in the Gun Report. Therefore we know a lot about these particular guns. Based on the descriptions, Mauser used every part, irrespective of year in putting these "parts guns" together and they represent an interesting variation in the history of Mauser Foreign Contracts..

lastly,

Goertz and Sturgess have a bit to say about the disposirion of the Persian Contract.

They confirm that most of the P.08s and LP.08s were disposed of in Europe and due to the way they were packed, most were mismatched.

They add, however, that Odin International, Ltd. of Alexandria, VA imported about 100 LP.08s and some P.08s from the Siamese contract into the USA and sold them around 1981.