Hello Tom,
Thanks for posting the photo album showing your very nice pistol. Congratulations on a very good buy !
Sounds like you also have a jewel of a wife, who encouraged you to buy yourself a luger for a birthday present. Not too many understanding wives around in the Membership.
My wife was very supportive during my first few acquistions and continues to be so. But I do believe she has lost track of what I have in the gun safes... <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />
Enjoy your luger and start looking for your next piece !!!
p.s.
The "little piece below the eagle", as you described it, is called the extractor. Yours is the old model type that only acts to extract the spent case from the chamber. The new model extractor (after the 1906 models) did this and acted as a "loaded chamber" device as well and was shaped much differently. The other parts on your 1900 AE (Test) pistol that should be "strawed" are indeed so, as can be seen from your photos.
Regards,
Pete... <img border="0" alt="[typing]" title="" src="graemlins/yltype.gif" />