View Single Post
Unread 05-17-2018, 01:58 AM   #7
ithacaartist
Twice a Lifer
Lifetime Forum
Patron
 
ithacaartist's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Atop the highest hill in Schuyler County NY
Posts: 3,288
Thanks: 7,035
Thanked 2,482 Times in 1,323 Posts
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by HerrKaiser View Post
They beat me to it, but yeah that’s a .30 Luger (or 7.65x21) pistol there. Side question, weren’t Baby Lugers chambered in .380?
That's why I asked about the frame's scale...

I was looking around in the meantime and found a post by our Ron Wood on Jan's forum:

"The "GL" marked "baby" Luger is the cut down 7-shot variation. It would be the pre-war "baby", a modification of a larger Luger and not one of original design. The true "baby" Luger was produced long after Georg Luger (GL) was out of the picture and was a new design in the 1920s.

According to Herr Weiss, there were at least four of the "baby" Lugers produced as toolroom prototypes, two in 7.65mm (.32 Browning) and two in .380 cal (9mm Kurz), with the possibility of enough parts on hand to construct a 5th example (caliber unknown)."
__________________
"... Liberty is the seed and soil, the air and light, the dew and rain of progress, love and joy."-- Robert Greene Ingersoll 1894
ithacaartist is offline   Reply With Quote
The following member says Thank You to ithacaartist for your post: