Collecting Luger Pistols

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Originally Posted by Maestro

My favorite No. 11

Maestro,

Very nice. Congratulations. .

SN 11 has matured quite nicely since Alan Kelley imported and sold it in the 80s.

The restorer's interpretation of the Farsi numeral 1 is somewhat imaginative. You can see what I mean if you compare them to the 1's on the 100 mm barrel Persian you posted here.

FYI, when it arrived in the USA it had a mis-matched, non-cutout side plate (03), a non-matching magazine and a chamber date of 1936. Grips were pretty good and was estimated to have about 90 percent finish.

Rare gun. Of the fifty only 39 eventually got to the USA and we have good data on only 25 of them.

John