Hi Brandon,
Your 1937 S/42 is correct. The transition from straw to blue took place some place around the "T" block. Before that all were strawed with rust blue, and after that all were all blued with salt blue. During the transition period of the "S" or "T" block you can find a combination of rust and salt blue and a combination of droop eagle 63 and straight eagle 63 acceptance marks. An interesting variation is a strawed Luger with a bump, as all the strawed variations did not have this except these transition pieces.
We have been through this before, and I stated before that there was a lot of bad information being posted on the forum. These "old books" are great, but they do contain lots of mistakes. Matter of fact, all the books contain mistakes, and if you are going to answer questions just by looking up stuff in different books and you really do not know the answer ahead of time, then you will no doubt at times pass on wrong information. No one can know all the answers in all the different fields of Lugers, as there are just too many differences between variations. My field is Mauser Military and Mauser Police Lugers. I know some about Imperial and a lot about Weimar Police Lugers, but Mausers are what I am more familar with. In my opinion, Jan Still's books are the most recent and most accurate at this time. Good collecting.
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