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Unread 07-17-2001, 09:19 PM   #3
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Default Re: luger id???

Hi David,

I agree with Kyrie that this is a reworked Luger for commercial sales, but I do not agree with the term "1920 commercial". I feel that there is enough new information and research to support that all "alphabet Lugers" as Jan Still calls them, and "1920 commercials" as Kyrie calls them, were of New Manufacture. These are guns with a 4 digit serial number in the i through s blocks. The term "1920 commercial" was a term coined up over 50 years ago for anything that was in 30 Luger with possible a Germany stamped on it, and of new or reworked workmanship. Kyrie and I are thinking on the same terms, but just have a very different opinion on what to call these reworked guns. In my opinion, there is a hell of a lot of difference between a commercial gun of new manufacture and a reworked, refurbished commercial gun, and lumping them all together is not correct. There is a large difference in price from a new manufactured gun as compared to a refurbished gun. The old books refer to these guns as a 1920 commercial, but they actually could of been refurbished anywhere from 1918 to 1932. I'll just leave it as a post WWI reworked commercial Luger. Just my opinion --



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