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Herb · 08-11-2002, 06:57 PM

Herb don't hold me to this as my memory is failing me in my older years but I seem to recall somewhere in the cobwebs that the dating of Lugers was not necessarily done in the year they were actually manufactured, but that the dates signified the year that the particular firm recieved the contract for a specified run of Lugers. Therefore a firm, Erfurt, recieves a contract for 1000 pieces in mid to late 1914 and the manufacturing actually carried over into 1915 before that contract was fulfilled, so the '1915' Erfurts were still marked 1914 per contract. I cannot recall which companys' did this, or if ANY actually did. If there is any accuracy this, it would explain a few things. Sure wish I could remember where I read this. Maybe in my dreams. <img src="graemlins/sleep.gif" border="0" alt="[sleep]" />

08-11-2002, 06:57 PM	#3
Herb User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Utah, in the land of the Sleeping Rainbow Posts: 1,457 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Herb don't hold me to this as my memory is failing me in my older years but I seem to recall somewhere in the cobwebs that the dating of Lugers was not necessarily done in the year they were actually manufactured, but that the dates signified the year that the particular firm recieved the contract for a specified run of Lugers. Therefore a firm, Erfurt, recieves a contract for 1000 pieces in mid to late 1914 and the manufacturing actually carried over into 1915 before that contract was fulfilled, so the '1915' Erfurts were still marked 1914 per contract. I cannot recall which companys' did this, or if ANY actually did. If there is any accuracy this, it would explain a few things. Sure wish I could remember where I read this. Maybe in my dreams. <img src="graemlins/sleep.gif" border="0" alt="[sleep]" /> __________________ Utah, where gun control means a steady trigger pull