German Officers Pistol

[Edward Tinker]

no

We get asked this a lot. Sometimes gramps doesn't remember he traded a carton of cigs for it while over there. Or that he had it done a few monhts to a 1 year after he got home (it was a lot of years ago). He may very well have gotten it from a GI who picked it up and had it done. GI's were trading and having stuff like this done, including engraving for cheap, a packet of cigs for nice nickleing...

There were NO nickle or chromed lugers carried by soliders or officers in WW1 or WW2....

PS: There is a "belief" by many folks that lugers always came from an officer. Wrong, many enlisted had lugers, p38's etc....

There is a belief that officers officers had nickle plated... Wrong

There is a beliefe that Navy officers had ncikle to prevent rustings... Wrong...