1916 DWM w/Erfurt Receiver Proof...

[Pete Ebbink]

Just recently at the Las Vegas gun show on one of the auction house "preview" tables (Greg Martin auctions), I had a chance to see a 1916 DWM artillery. Gun looked decent and on first pass, seemed to be an honest gun (sorry...I neglected to jot down the serial number..).

This piece had the Erfurt eagle stamp on the barrel...which I think is common and accepted. But this gun also had the same Erfurt eagle on the right side of the receiver as well...

Would like to get other folks opinions...

I asked one collector at the show about this piece...he said he had not seen it yet, but had heard the lugers on the auction house tables came from an estate of a collector/gunsmith from the Seattle, WA area...

What bothered me about this gun was how "honest" it looked. I did not do a take-down, but the only thing I could spot "odd" on the piece was that receiver stamp...

Regards,

Pete... <img border="0" alt="[typing]" title="" src="graemlins/yltype.gif" />