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Dok · 04-10-2002, 08:31 AM

Hi Matt, Welcome to the Luger Forum, we hope you'll be a regular. As noted above your pistol is not "matched" although the numbers certainly match. At some point someone has swapped the toggle. The toggle that you should have would be marked with the DWM logo and not the S/42 marking, which is the Mauser code and therefore would place it somewhere between 1940-1945, not 1918. It is impossible to tell when this may have been done or why. I can't believe that someone swapped this in order to make it "all matching" because anyone who knew enough to know about "all matching" would also know that the S/42 was glaringly wrong. In its present state your pistol has no collector value, but would have an intrinsic value of between $400 and $600. I hope this helps.

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04-10-2002, 08:31 AM	#3
Dok RIP Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Bermuda (Eat Your Heart Out) Posts: 1,626 Thanks: 0 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts	Re: 1918 S/42 Luger Hi Matt, Welcome to the Luger Forum, we hope you'll be a regular. As noted above your pistol is not "matched" although the numbers certainly match. At some point someone has swapped the toggle. The toggle that you should have would be marked with the DWM logo and not the S/42 marking, which is the Mauser code and therefore would place it somewhere between 1940-1945, not 1918. It is impossible to tell when this may have been done or why. I can't believe that someone swapped this in order to make it "all matching" because anyone who knew enough to know about "all matching" would also know that the S/42 was glaringly wrong. In its present state your pistol has no collector value, but would have an intrinsic value of between $400 and $600. I hope this helps. Dok (Webmaster)