marking on '36 S/42

Lugers were only made till they reached the 10,000 mark on military made guns. Then the next batch was 1a, 1000a etc., of course going through the alphabet if the run was made that far, so you will run across 8341 r and the like.


So, for insurance purposes and legal purposes your serial number should be Mauser 8341r and 1936 (chamber date) and barrel length. (S/42 is of course for Mauser).


Although the alphabet of yours sounds a bit odd, the letters were the stylized German script and should be a letter.


Ed