Hi,
Have what I consider an interesting story about a 1940/42 Navy Luger. I purchased this gun from a gentleman in NJ about 5 years ago and the serial number was 9967b with a property number of 4449N. It came with a 1940 Navy holster and two Navy 122 type magazines. The one magazine had the wrong serial number of the gun on it, but had the correct property number of 4449N. The other had a different serial number and different property number. The magazine with the 4449N looked correct but though someone had messed with it and put the correct property number on it. About 6 months later I happened to be looking on e-bay and saw a magazine for sale for Alberta, Canada that was serial numberd 9967b with the property number 4449Nx on it. Yep, that was my magazine and I bought it. When I received the magazine I compared the two 4449N's and found that they were exactly the same as the middle 44's touched and they both had the same spacing between numbers. The same die was used to put them both on. I took these magazines to the Kansas City show and showed them to most of the dealers and collectors that I could, and after they looked at them all were in agreement that they were original and correct. This seems to suggest that the Navy was only interested in the Navy property number and in this case the serial numbers of the magazines were mixed up, but the property number was still issued on a non matching magazine since it really didn't matter to the Navy about the magazine serial number. We began to wonder how common this was since matching Navy magazines are hard to find. Any comments? -- Bill
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