1916 Navy / Weimar Police

[Edward Tinker]

Here is a pistol that has seen some service, it started life as a 1916 Navy, was scrubbed a bit, given a 1920 Reichswehr stamping (lightest I have seen), then went into police service where it obtained a unit marking, and sometime after 1933 a Sear and Magazine safety!!








There are always questions on sear and mag safeties. Lets have a quick lesson on Mag Safeties:




A magazine safety would have been installed after a Prussian police directive of August 30th 1933.
In 1937, the magazine safeties were directed to be removed. Some / most were actually physically removed and the hole where the clip of the safety held onto the frame was welded in and reblued. A few you see are like this, almost completly there, with the last bit clipped off. See the next two pictures, one showing the clip, the next the outline of the clipped area.






The very light 1920 stamping:





Toggle stamping, I am unsure what the stamp is, my Imperial Lugers is still in storage;








Unit marking, does anyone know what this stands for? My guess is; Schutzpolizie Wiesbaden Administrative District I weapon # xxxx