[Herb]

Blkhand, very interesting report. I'd be very wary of taking this individuals advice in total as an authority on Luger pistols. His statement that all parts of a Luger (p.08) after 1937 are black is totally incorrect. Actually only about 20% of the p.08's made have the black grips and are referred to as 'black widows'. The majority being the byf/41 and 42's. Supposedly this term was coined by Luger collector and dealer Ralph Shattuck as a marketing ploy and has no basis what so ever in any authentic luger manufacturing method or reason and to my knowledge was never associated with the SS. I can't comment on the Dansig test or the Eastern Air Force Lugers as I haven't heard of them. There are other members here on the forum that can give you the sequence of serial numbers that would most likely have the black bakelite grips and other info about them.