Earliest surviving Test Luger (?)

ithacaartist · 04-30-2023, 02:50 AM

I just watched the latest Legacy Collectibles YouTube presentation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8FA5MZ_oi4

This gun was "all over the forums," according to Tom, ten years ago, although I do not remember the thread here. He lays out a very interesting case. But not knowing what was decided in the historian/collectors' community, I have a question that was not addressed in the YouTube:

If the gun was one of two sent from existing stock in the U.S. by Hans Tauscher,, why is its mag numbered to the gun? Commercial Lugers' mags weren't numbered, right? Why would this have been an exception?

Bill_in_VA · 04-30-2023, 08:42 AM

Re-reading the original thread, it’s clear to me the gun has many problems as well as a lack of hard evidence to support its claim to fame; circumstantial under the best interpretations. Here’s the original thread: https://www.lugerforums.com/threads/...r-found.35454/

jeb111 · 04-30-2023, 01:22 PM

I read the previous threads and unfortunately this is another pistol with a huge cloud over its head. If any potential buyer does their research they wouldn't touch this pistol with a ten foot pole. Not at that price. Interesting Luger for sure though and seems to be a nice 1900 AE but everything else???
Jim

04-30-2023, 02:50 AM	#1
ithacaartist Twice a Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Atop the highest hill in Schuyler County NY Posts: 3,346 Thanks: 7,275 Thanked 2,578 Times in 1,365 Posts	Earliest surviving Test Luger (?) I just watched the latest Legacy Collectibles YouTube presentation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8FA5MZ_oi4 This gun was "all over the forums," according to Tom, ten years ago, although I do not remember the thread here. He lays out a very interesting case. But not knowing what was decided in the historian/collectors' community, I have a question that was not addressed in the YouTube: If the gun was one of two sent from existing stock in the U.S. by Hans Tauscher,, why is its mag numbered to the gun? Commercial Lugers' mags weren't numbered, right? Why would this have been an exception? __________________ "... Liberty is the seed and soil, the air and light, the dew and rain of progress, love and joy."-- Robert Greene Ingersoll 1894

04-30-2023, 08:42 AM	#2
Bill_in_VA User Join Date: Nov 2013 Location: Southwest Virginia Posts: 373 Thanks: 770 Thanked 554 Times in 198 Posts	Re-reading the original thread, it’s clear to me the gun has many problems as well as a lack of hard evidence to support its claim to fame; circumstantial under the best interpretations. Here’s the original thread: https://www.lugerforums.com/threads/...r-found.35454/ __________________ John 8:32 reive (riːv) vb (Military) (intr) dialect Scot and Northern English to go on a plundering raid [variant of reave] ˈreiver n e.g., " Some view the Border Reivers as loveable rogues."

04-30-2023, 01:22 PM	#3
jeb111 Patron LugerForum Patron Join Date: May 2018 Location: wyoming Posts: 277 Thanks: 712 Thanked 331 Times in 133 Posts	I read the previous threads and unfortunately this is another pistol with a huge cloud over its head. If any potential buyer does their research they wouldn't touch this pistol with a ten foot pole. Not at that price. Interesting Luger for sure though and seems to be a nice 1900 AE but everything else??? Jim