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Unread 04-05-2009, 03:06 AM   #1
kearney luger
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Default Help on a 41 dwm luger= i know sounds strange

Hope some knows more than I do. Mother in law recently gave us father in laws gun, she knows little except he got it at an estate sale around 17 years ago and treasured it.

We've been researching and at first it appeared that a 41 dwm don't exist, then saw a couple on internet that were dismissed as pieces put together. Got a book called "Standard Catalog of Military Firearms" 4 th edition by Phillip Peterson. On pg 120 listed under Mauser Manufactered Lugers 1930-1942 DWM, Mauser Oberndorf and states the front toggle link is still marked "DWM" as leftover parts were intermixed with new mauser parts in the production of this pistol. This is one of the first lugers to be finished with the "salt blue" process. There were approx. 500 manufactured with one to four digit serial numbers with the letter "v" suffix. This is a rare variation. ///End of quote
As you will see ours has this v, compared it to your pix online of suffixes. thank you. 500 with 1 to 4 digit s.n. mmmm another place online tells dwm toggles were used by mauser is www.lugerlpo8.free.fr/fsite03.htm or put that in search engine, look under model history 5th paragragh.

Gun appears to be a 1934 gun model-same as black widow
dwm toggle-v rear site is numbered
extractor marked geladen on side numbered on top, same 2 digit sn all over it. wood checkered grips same number inside.
seriall number has v suffix, underside of barrel sn and gauge 883
Proofmarks match those on Phoenixinvestmentarms.com under "41"dated '42' mauser rig history file.

Get this to boot: as if 1 of 500 isn't rare enough. This gun was scrolled all over. Ok some may be leery of when this was done. But if you look on internet in a search engine I use ask, George Duncan's historical facts of world war II, under lesser known facts of wwII on page 6-more lesser known facts half way down the page under Gun Accidents, : it says that the danish resistance offered and did scroll work for officers so they could sabatage their gun to blow up and hundreds we done. > not thousands! We have never fired this gun. /thank god.

Okay so by now some of you might think that I'm a know it all, I'm not, but I have looked hard for answers.

Now what I want from you experts. Is there any infor you can give me on either subject?

What is your opinion on what I have here?

Any thoughts on value?

And do you or can you give me a name of a certified luger appraiser who can authenticate this gun and appraise its value? (without trying to buy it or get me to sell to someone they know)

Sorry if my pix quality ain't great, I put it on highest pixel count for clarity.
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