Bannerman question?

[Edward Tinker]

Originally Posted by skeeter4206

How do you tell whats a bannerman and whats not. Im sure there a document saying what bannerman bought I assume.

this has been discussed by collectors for some time, a couple of luger books quote the numbers considered as 'Bannerman" bought lugers from the gov't, this listing is known. The issue of what is a test luger and what is not is that there is a range of at least 2,000 and perhaps more that have the 'Test" characteristics. Primarily the lack of 'Germany' export markings, but a few other characteristics also. Central Powers by Jan Still has this in depth.

There is presently (and by several folks) searching for other documentation, there is likely some and likely not most. Its simply that most of this documentation has been lost to time.