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Unread 09-13-2013, 02:33 PM   #40
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A little miscommunication there. I think some of the parts I have, specially 1900 leaf springs were remanufactured by Simson or some other entity. I do not have any spare Simson parts that I know of. A couple spare Simson magazines and a spare Krieghoff mag, but no proofed parts for either. I was not aware that Simson guns were more rare than Krieghoff. The old numbers we had were 12K for Simson Company Lugers plus the military dated-2K plus the S dates which is more than all the Krieghoffs. Have those numbers been revised downword? I have not read Still’s book on that era....Gary
Yes, Jan's book is excellent. And I have read my book, called Simson Lugers.
There were less than 12k of Simson's made total, the S toggle, not really a code. They were made at the same time as they made the Simson & Son toggle AFTER the first 10k and are all 'a' suffix numbered. New books, new information.
My simson database is here on the forum.
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