A couple of months ago I also bought a 1920 alpha commercial Luger. A beautiful little gun with a pristine bore after I gave everything a thourough cleaning. I completely disassembled the gun in the shop to check all the numbers which all matched excepet for one thing, the side plate had no number on it. Its a gun that has never been refinished that I can tell. It made me ponder the question, "Did this gun leave the factory this way?" I posted the question on a few different sites and, of course, received a few different answers.
I already thought I knew the answer I just wanted another opinion. To me it is a mismatched gun. Yet to other people on some of the other sites it was just a factory mistake. Either way I will enjoy this gun just as much and shoot it as it was intended for. However if a time comes to sell it I will sell it as a shooter Luger and not as a collectors Item, which to some people it still is, just not to me.
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