Inherited 1918 Erfurt with police holster and two mags

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Jerry sent me an email, with a link to this thread.

My pistol is a luger that was converted to police use. The frame is dated 1917 and has naval markings on the real grip strap The toggle is DWM. The barrel is dated 1912. The pistol was renumbered to the serial # on the side of the chamber.

It belonged to my uncle (actually the husband of my aunt). He brought it back from WWII. In addition to the magazine, the front and back of the back strap is marked with 4 different unit numbers. After the war, when I was 8 (1946) he would show me the pistol and would speculate on the units it had been with. The marking on the back of the grip strap was a naval marking. A common and normal naval marking for navy lugers in 1917. One of the markings on on the front of the grip strap was U(with a umlate).68. He always wondered if it had been issued to a U boat sailor and how it did not go to the bottom of the ocean.

He spent time back then trying to figure out what units had the luger. We had many a long time talking about it. There was not much info available in the 40s and early 50s. In 1955, when I graduated from high school, he gave it to me as a graduation present. I disposed of it a few years ago.