Re: Quite rare...?
I forgot one other thing. The Luger Navies are P-04's and not P-08's. The German Navy adopted the Navy guns in 1904 and DWM made sure that the quaity of them was very good because they had a lot riding on the navy contract. I believe that the rarest of the navies is the 1902. These were guns issued to train navy personel on how the danged new fangled thing worked. Most of these were returned to the arsenel when the 1906 contract was completed.
Of the 1906's that are the rarest is the 1906 1st issue unaltered. When the 1906 was first issued, the safety was in the wrong direction. Most guns were either sent back to the arsenel to be reworked to the final safety direction or were reworked by the navy. But a few slipped through. Thes are called the 1st issued altered. These are noticable by the unblued bright metal under the safety.
The came the 1906 navy 2nd issue and these were the guns that had the safety corrected during the manufacturing process.
Big Norm
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