My New 1917 DWM Luger questions

[Edward Tinker]

Originally Posted by DavidJayUden

Reblued yes, but probably done during police rework, so no huge deal. Formerly an artillery model, re-barreled. A nice gun with it's own group of specialty collectors.
dju

I am afraid I disagree with this - when refurbed, my experience is that they were reblued, just like it was new, so anything you see as reblued that shouldn't be, was done by a NON armory...

Originally Posted by BarrelBaggins

Thanks for the quick replies guys!
Wouldn’t the pistol have to have the 1920 stamp for it to go into police service? Otherwise that would mean this pistol was never turned in from what I’ve read.

Also does anyone know what the markings (attached) mean?

Please change how you think of the 1920 - someone told you wrong. It was placed there to show it was gov't property. Private purchase and many tens of thousands of guns were not marked.

The 1920 has nothing to do with police service

Not all police guns were unit marked
Not all police guns received much in the way of marking (the TP shows the barrel was replaced) - perhaps it went back to DWM for refurb and received a 7.65mm then went to the police.
The magazine is a police magazine - it could have been police, or it could have been matched up after the war

Ed
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