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Originally Posted by Ron Wood
How about 1913 Commercial, with and without grip safety?
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Ron,
I have an aversion to dated commercial collector designations. They carry no evolutionary information relative to their official origins, e.g. New Model Parabellum vs. "1906"--the actual DWM blueprint designation is "Selbstlade Pistole 1904"; they frequently mislead a collector with erroneous date information, e.g. 1902 carbine, 1902 fat barrel, 1914 commercial, '23 commercial; and they tend to proliferate wildly, e.g. 1914 commercial, Bill Reupke's 1916 commercial designation based on the inception of the rebated sear bar, and Aarron Davis's wildly inflated variation list, etc.
In the commercial database I have found it necessary to create a simple distinction between P08s with and without stock lug:
08C designates non-stock lug pistols;
P08 designates pistols with stock lugs. This is made clear in the database key.
To your actual question, "grip safety P08 commercial" works just fine as it avoids a date and encompasses the examples both with and without stock lugs.
--Dwight