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Ron Wood · 10-13-2003, 02:17 AM

Pete,

Swiss Ordonnanzpistole Modell 1900 serial number 01 (the first Swiss military Luger) in the Henk Visser collection is configured as the Luger you described. Christian Reinhart in â??Pistolen und Revolver der Schweizâ? shows Ordonnanzpistole #465 marked the same way. I have #109 with unrelieved frame and flat button mag also in the same configuration. Based on the Reinhart example it would appear that perhaps as many as 500 of the initial Swiss military pieces did not bear the Vogelsang inspection mark, and the number may even be higher. The #139 you observed is as right as rain, and being unaltered, i.e. unrelieved frame, it is worth a whole bunch of $$.

10-13-2003, 02:17 AM	#2
Ron Wood Moderator 2010 LugerForum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Santa Teresa New Mexico just outside of the West Texas town of El Paso Posts: 7,051 Thanks: 1,120 Thanked 5,287 Times in 1,728 Posts	Pete, Swiss Ordonnanzpistole Modell 1900 serial number 01 (the first Swiss military Luger) in the Henk Visser collection is configured as the Luger you described. Christian Reinhart in â??Pistolen und Revolver der Schweizâ? shows Ordonnanzpistole #465 marked the same way. I have #109 with unrelieved frame and flat button mag also in the same configuration. Based on the Reinhart example it would appear that perhaps as many as 500 of the initial Swiss military pieces did not bear the Vogelsang inspection mark, and the number may even be higher. The #139 you observed is as right as rain, and being unaltered, i.e. unrelieved frame, it is worth a whole bunch of $$. __________________ If it's made after 1918...it's a reproduction