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Unread 05-20-2016, 08:02 PM   #12
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I have a Luger that was double struck with the adjacent numeric digit in the serial number. This one was also a 1936 Mauser. I wonder if this worker did both... Same block, 2,800 guns apart... They have really good Schnapps in Oberndorf... I wonder where they were working in 1937...

The worker probably picked up the wrong die stamp, and then over-stamped the correct number.

The workers were human; made mistakes and were not thinking about collectors 70 or 80 years down the road...



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