in John Walters book, "The Luger Book" , he identified my above described extractor as a Russian extractor (see page 239). Also on that page, he qualified his identification by saying:
"It is popularly believed that the surviving Russian guns are of 'Bulgarian' type, Owing to subtle differences between the two languages. However, as linguists have now pointed out, there was no differences at all between Russian and Bulgarian until the former was modernized in the early 1920s. Thus, when the Parabellums were supplied, the marks on the Russian and Bulgarian guns would have been identical. ".
So, if I read Mr. Walter correctly, MY EXTRACTORS are of both of pre-1920 Russian/Bulgarian vintage and Andys extractor MAY BE of Bulgarian post-1920 vintage.
It is nice to note that the extractor on the very rare French Luger has "CHARGE" on it and I thank Olivier for that contribution. But the picture that he supplied of the Bulgarian extractor was a little too small for my old eyes to see. Maybe someone who is good with digital photography can enlarge that picture?
In any case, I will be sending an email to Andy to see if he will want to work out a deal for his extractor to help me enlarge my small collection of extractors.
Big Norm
