New Luger purchase

clubcoz1 · 08-24-2024, 08:08 PM

Some 'Frankenluger' purchases...The Artillery is already up at Lugerman getting a restoration...

clubcoz1 · 08-24-2024, 08:10 PM

1921 dwm...

clubcoz1 · 08-24-2024, 08:13 PM

1916 DWM nickel plate

Eugen · 08-25-2024, 10:23 AM

Cool acquisitions. Congrats.
But, I never saw an over polished, nickel plated Luger that didn't make me want to cry.

clubcoz1 · 08-25-2024, 11:57 AM

Yeah, I really wasn't planning on purchasing it when I dropped off the artillery to get restored ( I don't really mind restoring 'parts' guns and Lugerman does some exceptional work ). He had just finished up with it (probably picked it up cheap ) and brought it out to show me...and I fell in lust with it. He didn't it any way represent it as number a matching luger and I wouldn't have cared anyway. It does have a lot of '99s' all over the gun...but it has a 'S/42' stamped on the barrel length-wise in between the barrel matchmarks and the serial number...weird.

I realize the luger community at large frowns upon chrome plating lugers. It must've been a mess...anyway, it's found a good home.

johnboy · 08-27-2024, 11:39 AM

The S/42 barrel is a WW2 armorer's replacement barrel

clubcoz1 · 08-27-2024, 12:44 PM

Thanks for responding...considering what little info I possess about lugers, I don't recall ever seeing that s/42 stamp on anyone else's luger. I just assumed someone was trying to pull something in the past. Since the right side upper receiver has a crown over RC, is it safe to assume the barrel replacement was done at Erfurt Arsenal?

Just googled and found a post from phila dated Aug 6, 2023 #9 that he had seen 42, S/42 and E655? stamped barrels and believed they all came out of the Heer Depot...

Had to look up 'Heer'...means army in english...guess I'll have to learn German, too...lol.

clubcoz1 · 08-27-2024, 08:46 PM

Found another stamp on the barrel...left side at about 1:30- 2 o'clock...a stick eagle with two numbers I think...last number is a 3, the first number is heavily buffed out but appears to be either a 5 or a 6...

08-25-2024, 10:23 AM	#4
Eugen User Join Date: Apr 2016 Location: Newburgh,IN Posts: 797 Thanks: 403 Thanked 640 Times in 339 Posts	Cool acquisitions. Congrats. But, I never saw an over polished, nickel plated Luger that didn't make me want to cry. __________________ “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.” ― Mark Twain

08-25-2024, 11:57 AM	#5
clubcoz1 User Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Bensalem, PA Posts: 10 Thanks: 0 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts	Yeah, I really wasn't planning on purchasing it when I dropped off the artillery to get restored ( I don't really mind restoring 'parts' guns and Lugerman does some exceptional work ). He had just finished up with it (probably picked it up cheap ) and brought it out to show me...and I fell in lust with it. He didn't it any way represent it as number a matching luger and I wouldn't have cared anyway. It does have a lot of '99s' all over the gun...but it has a 'S/42' stamped on the barrel length-wise in between the barrel matchmarks and the serial number...weird. I realize the luger community at large frowns upon chrome plating lugers. It must've been a mess...anyway, it's found a good home.

08-27-2024, 11:39 AM	#6
johnboy New User Join Date: Feb 2014 Posts: 1 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	The S/42 barrel is a WW2 armorer's replacement barrel

08-27-2024, 12:44 PM	#7
clubcoz1 User Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Bensalem, PA Posts: 10 Thanks: 0 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts	Thanks for responding...considering what little info I possess about lugers, I don't recall ever seeing that s/42 stamp on anyone else's luger. I just assumed someone was trying to pull something in the past. Since the right side upper receiver has a crown over RC, is it safe to assume the barrel replacement was done at Erfurt Arsenal? Just googled and found a post from phila dated Aug 6, 2023 #9 that he had seen 42, S/42 and E655? stamped barrels and believed they all came out of the Heer Depot... Had to look up 'Heer'...means army in english...guess I'll have to learn German, too...lol.

08-27-2024, 08:46 PM	#8
clubcoz1 User Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Bensalem, PA Posts: 10 Thanks: 0 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts	Found another stamp on the barrel...left side at about 1:30- 2 o'clock...a stick eagle with two numbers I think...last number is a 3, the first number is heavily buffed out but appears to be either a 5 or a 6...