Weimar hold open

[Mike B]

On page 34 of Mr. Charles Kenyon's book, "Lugers at Random", he states that the hold open latch on commercial Lugers should not be marked. However, I realize the Weimar era covers a large variety of Lugers. My Safe & Loaded American Eagle is certainly a commercial Luger produced in the Weimar era. That being said, other Lugers in that era and possibly mine as well, were made from left over military parts and thus have military style numbering. My Safe and Loaded does not have numbered grip panels. Therefore, as has been stated before, anything is possible in the Weimar era. My question then, I suppose, should be: Should we take, with a grain of salt, Mr. Kenyon's information about all commerical Lugers not having a stamped hold open latch? Does this opinion apply only to thoroughbred commercial Lugers and not to Weimar era commercials? After all this, I am going to leave it alone, as I am confindent that the Luger in question was built with the hold open that is in the pistol, otherwise why would it match. And the Luger is like new; it still has the original cosmoline in places.

Mike