Hi,
More than likely the SS marks on the Luger and the takedown tool are bogus. There have been dies available for 50 years in Germany and the United States and are for sale currently. You can currently "order" any kind of a tool you desire from a certain "dealer", and this has been going on for years. This indicates that "craftsmen" have been "enhancing" variations for a long time. When a premium price can be obtained over a normal piece, you see the dies come out and pieces start showing up. An example of this is the Mauser Military Police variations where there are more fabricated pieces with a sear safety now than real examples. The same is true with the ss runes marked Lugers. Without absolute positive documentation of some kind, you more than likely have an enhanced variation. Another example is the reported 1945 Krieghoff examples where it was positively observed that a guy in the mid-east in the 50's or early 60's was building these in his shop. The dies were observed, the frames, and other parts. This was in the 50's, so don't fool yourself that this hasn't been going on for a long, long time! Stoegers are another example where there are more fabricated examples than real examples. It is interesting that these examples are just now showing up and that the major collectors that have search all over the world, have contacts all over the world, have not been able to find examples until just recently, and they have had access to major collections for the last 50 years. Just something to think about.
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