Overstamped Serial Number?

mrerick · 07-23-2010, 07:11 PM

Ronald,

Thanks for your encouraging words. I like this 1936 and plan on keeping it for many years.

So far, I've encountered the odd one other time in Luger collecting. I've got one of a very small number of out of sequence "42" year military proofed Lugers with a Mauser Banner toggle!

This pistol was probably manufactured in April as the Spring weather arrived in Oberndorf. I can imagine a worker who's focus was on the beautiful weather and not the dies in his hand... At least, that's what I'd like to think!

Marc

LugerVern · 07-23-2010, 09:10 PM

This is a great gun to discuss.
Especially for some beginners, early Mauser guns often have mixed fonts, on this gun all 4 numbers 5308 differ from the barrel and frame. What this says is that the manufacturing process at Mauser was different than at DWM or at the very least the serializing was.

This separate serializing would tend to increase the number of human errors between stamping of different parts at different times.

I really don't have much of a problem with this gun.

Vern

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07-23-2010, 07:11 PM	#1
mrerick Super Moderator - Patron LugerForum Life Patron Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Eastern North Carolina, USA Posts: 3,920 Thanks: 1,377 Thanked 3,135 Times in 1,518 Posts	Ronald, Thanks for your encouraging words. I like this 1936 and plan on keeping it for many years. So far, I've encountered the odd one other time in Luger collecting. I've got one of a very small number of out of sequence "42" year military proofed Lugers with a Mauser Banner toggle! This pistol was probably manufactured in April as the Spring weather arrived in Oberndorf. I can imagine a worker who's focus was on the beautiful weather and not the dies in his hand... At least, that's what I'd like to think! Marc

07-23-2010, 09:10 PM	#2
LugerVern User Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Virginia Posts: 563 Thanks: 1 Thanked 34 Times in 27 Posts	This is a great gun to discuss. Especially for some beginners, early Mauser guns often have mixed fonts, on this gun all 4 numbers 5308 differ from the barrel and frame. What this says is that the manufacturing process at Mauser was different than at DWM or at the very least the serializing was. This separate serializing would tend to increase the number of human errors between stamping of different parts at different times. I really don't have much of a problem with this gun. Vern