Toggle Lock Details...?

[Pete Ebbink]

Would appreciate learning more about the types of toggle locks on the early lugers in the 1902 to 1904 timeframe...

I have read that there are both 1-piece and 3-piece toggle lock designs, but have not seen any detailed photos (or guns in person) to envision how the mechanisms work...(acutally, I did see Mike Morris' 1904 Navy at Tulsa last year...but was not smart enough to ask the right questions...).

I think Jan Still's Imperial Lugers has a good photo and I do have an old Gun Report article from 1997 by Charlie Kenyon about the 1902 French lugers; but still cannot envision how the two types work and are different from each other.

I also understand that the pin placement is different. One type has the pin running through vertically, from the 12 0'clock postion downward while the other type has a horizontal pin running the 3-to-6 o'clock positions.

Would someone mind posting photos and a narrative to help make me smarter...?

Thanks so much !!!

Regards,

Pete... <img border="0" alt="[typing]" title="" src="graemlins/yltype.gif" />