1937 S/42 Help with ID

[bill m]

Hi Richard,

Something is not quite correct with this gun. The 1937 S/42 started about the P suffix block and ran into the B suffix block. From the P suffix to about the mid T block these Lugers had strawed parts, and after that they switched to the all blue salt blue finish with all small parts being blued. If your Luger does not have a letter suffix on the frame below the serial number,(under the barrel), then it should not have strawed parts as it is a late made 1937 S/42. The serial number range went from P,Q,R,S,T--U,V,W,X,Y,Z,no suffix,A, and B -- so you can see where approximately in the year your production was. ALSO, the extractor is never a strawed color, and is always blue.