Another Totenkopf Luger

[Hugo Borchardt]

Don:

Thanks. One of my favorite subjects. Though many think all of these are fake, I think it is a legitimate variation if only because the DH logo with the "snake/lazy S" is so unique. This is one of our hobby's great mysteries that I hope one day will be solved.

Looks like someone grabbed it - ON HOLD. I was thinking $1500-$1700 might be a more appropriate price, even for Simpson LTD. No offense to the buyer if you read this. What do I know?

Looks to me like the description is right - a 1920 Weimar Property Mark on scrubbed chamber date over Deaths Head. Was a chamber dated 1911-1918 military originally.

This gun is overstamped with the Weimar property mark in the same way this interesting receiver is over AE:
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vie...=221308041#PIC

Assuming therefore, that the DH was on the gun prior to Weimar rework acceptance, it still point to early 1920's at the latest on which the DH was applied by our mystery unit/party. After all, if the Weimar applied the Totenkopf then all of them would be stamped "1920", right?

Here's another one (Scrubbed Erfurt) coming up for sale on an auction this weekend:

http://www.proxibid.com/asp/LotDetai...77387#topoflot



Clark