John
Thanks. I knew that the gun was made before the year 1933 and after the year 1906. I already told you about the gunregister marking "Parabellum 23-08" could it be that my luger was made in the year 1923?
Finnish army adopted the 08 luger in the year 1923 to be the side arm of the officers. But the Finnish army lugers have got SA markings on them. SA means Suomen armeija wich means Finnish army. There are no SA markings in my luger so you must be right that my luger is a commercial product.
It was very rare to a civilian to own a luger in Finland before the WWII, but some officers, who liked luger pistols, bought their own lugers directly from Germany. That was very rare.
There were German soldiers in Finland helping Finnish troops fighting back the russians victoriously in the time of Continuos war 1942-1944. When Finland made the peace contract with the Russians, (-44) the contract forced Finland to make the Germans leave Finland. I�´ve seen some lugers wich used to be the side arm of a German soldier in the Lapland war when Finnish soldiers fought against the Germans. Germans burned down almost whole Lapland when they pulled back to North to Norway. Those lugers inclueded the markings of the German army and there are no such markings in my luger.
The question with the age of my luger seems to be a real hard one. It seems to be impossible to get know the manufacturing year. I�´ll send you those closeup photos maybe in the next week.
I hope some one regonizes my luger some day.
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