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mrerick · 02-22-2019, 01:47 PM

A "WW-I DWM Luger" taken into police service.

If you're buying it as a "shooter", make sure that it functions properly and that it has a decent trigger before you buy it. There's a real art to resolving those issues if they are present.

A field strip will help you see condition. IIRC, on police conversions, the magazines got all the numeric digits of the pistol's serial number.

I'm not sure if an arsenal police conversion would reblue over the strawing, so this could have been reblued much later, pretty much eliminating collector interest. Someone with more familiarity with police conversions could confirm this. If the seer safety has been removed along with the magazine safety, it saw further rework after the police conversion in any case.

We do have Netherlands based members that may be able to help further with value if they chime in.

02-22-2019, 01:47 PM	#10
mrerick Super Moderator - Patron LugerForum Life Patron Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Eastern North Carolina, USA Posts: 3,925 Thanks: 1,377 Thanked 3,139 Times in 1,520 Posts	A "WW-I DWM Luger" taken into police service. If you're buying it as a "shooter", make sure that it functions properly and that it has a decent trigger before you buy it. There's a real art to resolving those issues if they are present. A field strip will help you see condition. IIRC, on police conversions, the magazines got all the numeric digits of the pistol's serial number. I'm not sure if an arsenal police conversion would reblue over the strawing, so this could have been reblued much later, pretty much eliminating collector interest. Someone with more familiarity with police conversions could confirm this. If the seer safety has been removed along with the magazine safety, it saw further rework after the police conversion in any case. We do have Netherlands based members that may be able to help further with value if they chime in. __________________ Igitur si vis pacem, para bellum - - Therefore if you want peace, prepare for war.