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wlyon · 01-30-2009, 04:26 PM

Wayne
Your holster was manufactured by Frost Jahnel, Breslau. The luger looks like blued not strawed to me. Either one can be correct depending on serial number. I have trouble with some serial number suffix's your looks like a w to me. If so blued small parts is correct. The letters and number inside the holster could be Navy? Someone else will need to answer that. The date could well be 1940. There also should be a WaA 182 somewhere in the area of the date. Nice looking luger. Without the gun in hand price estimates are difficult. For insurance purposes I would use $2000. Nice looking luger. Welcome to the Forum. Bill

Topper265 · 01-30-2009, 07:48 PM

Ahh yes now I see more of the lettering. It gets pretty faint. There is something under the 1940 and one number is in 8. Any suggestions on how to bring out the data without harming the holster (any more than is already is)?

I'm not really sure how to differenciate between strawed or blued. All my weapons are blued or a later technology. I don't think I've ever seen "strawed".

My local gun shop guy told me it was probably in the $2k range but pointed me to your fourm for a better idea.

01-30-2009, 04:26 PM	#1
wlyon Lifer 2X Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: May 2005 Location: Somewhere in Montana Posts: 2,675 Thanks: 3,247 Thanked 2,664 Times in 990 Posts	Wayne Your holster was manufactured by Frost Jahnel, Breslau. The luger looks like blued not strawed to me. Either one can be correct depending on serial number. I have trouble with some serial number suffix's your looks like a w to me. If so blued small parts is correct. The letters and number inside the holster could be Navy? Someone else will need to answer that. The date could well be 1940. There also should be a WaA 182 somewhere in the area of the date. Nice looking luger. Without the gun in hand price estimates are difficult. For insurance purposes I would use $2000. Nice looking luger. Welcome to the Forum. Bill __________________ Bill Lyon

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01-30-2009, 07:48 PM	#2
Topper265 User Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 6 Thanks: 1 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Ahh yes now I see more of the lettering. It gets pretty faint. There is something under the 1940 and one number is in 8. Any suggestions on how to bring out the data without harming the holster (any more than is already is)? I'm not really sure how to differenciate between strawed or blued. All my weapons are blued or a later technology. I don't think I've ever seen "strawed". My local gun shop guy told me it was probably in the $2k range but pointed me to your fourm for a better idea.