Erfurt 1914 L P08 "Artillery"
Just received this one yesterday, took some photos last night.
Serial number is 7515a, blue fading to brown overall, has nice bright bore. Only 23,000 L P08s were produced by Erfurt, all in 1914; compared with about 151,000 by DWM from 1914 to 1918, with DWM producing only about 1,000 in 1914.
Thus only some 14% of the L P 08s were made by Erfurt.
Matching except for side plate and the magazine.
Now wearing a correct Erfurt inspected #15 side plate, thanks very much to a member here!
When it arrived it had a DWM #15 side plate that was also off in finish. So i think this is a closer finish match. The bluer side plate with just the "15" in the second from the bottom picture is the
DWM mis-match plate.
The magazine has no Erfurt inspections, I believe it should have 2 inspection marks and the letter suffix "a"; the font is very similar to that on the pistol itself. Perhaps it is a replacement or maybe just an added re-numbered mag.
Observations and comments welcome.
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