1918/1920 DWM Police P 08 - a little different

[Don M]

Don, this pistol does have a number of interesting features and a variety of plausible scenarios could be developed to explain them. Rather than add to them, I will offer several comments/observations.

I don't think the right side of the receiver has been scrubbed. The "C/G" is actually C/T. This acceptance stamp, along with two C/S stamps is found on virtually all 1917 and 1918 DWM P08s (http://luger.gunboards.com/showthrea...EPTANCE-STAMPS). The lack of C/S acceptances suggests the pistol had not been fully accepted by the military by the end of the war. Many 1918 police P08s share this feature.

I question whether this pistol was reworked at the Berlin Police Armory. While the barrel certainly appears to be from Simson, the lack of a PTV/E or TP/E proof suggests this was done elsewhere, probably before 1927.

The inventory number in the Schupo marking may be 1143 but I surely will not go to the mat over this.