Date my Luger :)

Dwight Gruber · 11-30-2006, 01:28 AM

Hsiawen,

Thanks for the sn and GERMANY note.

Your barrel is quite a conundrum. It is commonly thought that extra contract barrels were used to assemble commercial Lugers. There are other examples of Lugers with circle-B Brazilian barrels, as well as some 1900-model commercials with Swiss cross marked barrels.

Your gun is complicated by the fact that the Brazilian delivery was of guns in .30 cal., and yours is 9mm. Kenyon notes that some Brazilians are reported in 9mm and suggests that these may be later rebarrels or original barrels, but there is not independent verificaton of the latter.

Are there proof marks on this gun? Is there a serial number on the barrel?

--Dwight

11-30-2006, 01:28 AM	#8
Dwight Gruber User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Portland, Oregon Posts: 3,908 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1,330 Times in 435 Posts	Hsiawen, Thanks for the sn and GERMANY note. Your barrel is quite a conundrum. It is commonly thought that extra contract barrels were used to assemble commercial Lugers. There are other examples of Lugers with circle-B Brazilian barrels, as well as some 1900-model commercials with Swiss cross marked barrels. Your gun is complicated by the fact that the Brazilian delivery was of guns in .30 cal., and yours is 9mm. Kenyon notes that some Brazilians are reported in 9mm and suggests that these may be later rebarrels or original barrels, but there is not independent verificaton of the latter. Are there proof marks on this gun? Is there a serial number on the barrel? --Dwight