</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">Originally posted by RockinWR:
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* Military Lugers were produced & numbered in blocks of 10,000 pistols. The initial block was numbers only. The second block had the number and a lower case "a" suffix block, third block had a lower case "b", and so forth. For this first contract DWM continued to advance the suffix block despite the chamber date year. Took till the 1911 chamber date to complete these first 50,000. In 1912, DWM decided to start each year by restarting Luger S/Numbering at S/N 1.
* These facts maybe of interest to your C&R buddy. They suggest your 2 digit 1910 has a suffix block of "c" or "d". Thus, yours was either the 300xx or 400xx pistol made on this contract. By contract mandate, your can figure the approximate month your pistol was made, delivered to the Army & then the Cavalry if you assume linear production and allow for a month or two to cover contingency repairs at DWM, deliver times, issue time, etc. Rough approximation granted; but, in the ballpark.
Bob</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">Now that makes sense. On the underside of the barrel where it mates the chamber is the XX serial number with a script lower case d underneath, kind of like
XX
d
So that would mean Luger #400XX on the first military contract, right? Delivery time in the Fall of 1910, right? Is there any other place that the d suffix might be found?
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