Blank Toggle DWM/BKIW Lugers

[Lugerdoc]

Don Maus, As I recall a few of the s & t suffix blank toggle lugers that I've owned over the years has the suffix letter on the frame overstamped with a crown. You may want to ask about this on your request for info list. This will also lead to the further questions: whoses crown is it? and were they overstamped at BKIW or later? TH

[Don M]

Originally Posted by Lugerdoc

Don Maus, As I recall a few of the s & t suffix blank toggle lugers that I've owned over the years has the suffix letter on the frame overstamped with a crown. You may want to ask about this on your request for info list. This will also lead to the further questions: whoses crown is it? and were they overstamped at BKIW or later? TH

Tom, although I have not created a database specifically for these, I have noted quite a few of them over the years. While it is not possible for me to be sure, examination of the ones thought to have an overstamped "s" has led me to conclude they probably are "t" and that only this suffix is found overstamped with a crown. (However, this is not a particulary critical conclusion.)

I am really at a loss to explain these overstamps. The pistols I have observed were issued to a wide range of police forces which suggests that the only locations they could have been overstamped were either the factory or the police purchasing agency. I can't imagine their ever being reunited and overstamped after they were distributed.

[Don M]

Originally Posted by Lugerdoc

Don Maus, As I recall a few of the s & t suffix blank toggle lugers that I've owned over the years has the suffix letter on the frame overstamped with a crown. You may want to ask about this on your request for info list. This will also lead to the further questions: whoses crown is it? and were they overstamped at BKIW or later? TH

Tom's post got me curious. I looked through my database and found six 29 DWM Lugers with suffixes overstamped with a crown. Here are the results:

*Three original suffixes are definitely t and three are somewhat uncertain but could be t.

*Three have blank toggles and three have DWM logos.

*Two have sear safeties and four do not.

*Five were issued to Prussian police schools (three different schools) and one to the Prussian Landjägerei.

I'm still not sure what to make of this but do find the preponderance of police school Lugers curious.

It needs to be recognized that my database contains only police-marked pistols. If there are overstamped Lugers that do not have police markings, I would not have recorded them.