Strange GB Luger

Hugo Borchardt · 06-11-2012, 12:37 AM

Another strange bird for the record books, with what looks like giant flaming bomb proofs all over it.

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vie...Item=291023015

Font on TD lever doesnt match font above it on frame. Barrel apparently not serialed. Stock lug. It looks refinished. 7.65...

Check out the magazine. any ideas?

Clark

Ron Wood · 06-11-2012, 01:23 AM

Those are Belgian proofs. No doubt reworked and refinished quite some time ago when it was brought in country. Belgium, like England, requires all firearms not made in country to be proofed by the national proof house(s).

padredan · 06-12-2012, 11:36 AM

thanks Ron, now we know

06-11-2012, 12:37 AM	#1
Hugo Borchardt User Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Tennessee Posts: 370 Thanks: 339 Thanked 133 Times in 47 Posts	Strange GB Luger Another strange bird for the record books, with what looks like giant flaming bomb proofs all over it. http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vie...Item=291023015 Font on TD lever doesnt match font above it on frame. Barrel apparently not serialed. Stock lug. It looks refinished. 7.65... Check out the magazine. any ideas? Clark __________________ My militaria collection is dedicated to the memory of my Grandfather, Marine Gunnery Sergeant Dave Hill, Jr., wounded in action at The Assault of the Second Marine Division on Betio Island, Tarawa Atoll, 20-23 November, 1943. http://www.tarawa1943.com/pages/casualties%20tarawa.htm

06-11-2012, 01:23 AM	#2
Ron Wood Moderator 2010 LugerForum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Santa Teresa New Mexico just outside of the West Texas town of El Paso Posts: 7,022 Thanks: 1,090 Thanked 5,178 Times in 1,703 Posts	Those are Belgian proofs. No doubt reworked and refinished quite some time ago when it was brought in country. Belgium, like England, requires all firearms not made in country to be proofed by the national proof house(s). __________________ If it's made after 1918...it's a reproduction

06-12-2012, 11:36 AM	#3
padredan User Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: louisiana Now, but from the Rebublic of Texas Posts: 937 Thanks: 429 Thanked 316 Times in 182 Posts	thanks Ron, now we know __________________ In this world nothing is free, except the grace of God