Another One

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Boy these things are addicting, although I don't know why. Picked one up at the Fort Myers gun show today. It's pretty nice but a mismatched shooter with a decent old reblue. I guess I bought it because it has a great trigger and was cheap. (Besides Christmas is coming.) As anyone who has read any of my posts knows, I am not a total newbie, but an old shooter who likes nice Lugers but won't part with the $$ for collector guns.

Now a few questions. The gun is a 4" 9 mm without a grip safety and it has a stock lug. It has no proof marks at all and the seller claimed it is a 1920 commercial. Does anyone know? There are no import marks and the safety is marked GESICHERT (all caps.). The frame serial number is 2XXX with an "h" suffix. The canon seems to have all matching numbers and a DWM toggle, but no date and I don't think it was removed. The barrel number is 2XXX with an "a" suffix.

Also the gun has a trigger bar safety, does that make it a former police gun?

The grips are good, but have beeen varnished. How can I get that off?

With the gun I received a 1964 Stoeger Arms owners manual called "The Parabellum Automatic Pistol". It has about 50 small pages and some nice pictures and diagrams.

I've got to stay away from these shows--man they're expensive.