History of Police Safety Sear Installation

[mrerick]

When you receive your Luger, please take good closeup pictures of the serial number and suffix on the frame above the trigger guard. It could still well be that the suffix is a "s"...

This frame serial number including the suffix would be the serial number to record as describing your Luger.

Marc

[Don M]

Originally Posted by jags

Were there any specific Landjägerei units in which the data shows them only having the new 1929 issues 100%? If so this would support my theory that the new 1929's where issued to a few units first before the reworked guns got thrown into the mix.

The data tables in Chapter 13 of HWIS indicate nearly all of the Landjägerei units had 100% 29DWMs. There are a few exceptions, such as the Trier district. These may have received P08s later from the growing supply of reworked LP08s.

I applaud your interest in learning more about the "big picture" regarding these guns and police units. One of the reasons that I included virtually all of the available data in HWIS was to provide resources for further research by others. Considering your interest, I would encourage you to obtain a copy of HWIS. I believe it will answer many of your questions or provide a starting point for further inquiry.

Originally Posted by mrerick

The photo of the toggle train isn't quite sharp enough to make out, but the rear toggle is from either an Erfurt or possibley a Simson (if the mark is an E/6).

The parallel thread about reworked Landjägerei LP08s on Jan Still's forum (http://luger.gunboards.com/showthrea...JÄGEREI-LP08s) generated more responses and led to the discovery that the markings on the rear toggle links were police acceptance stamps (e.g., */D) indicative of replacement by the police armory during the conversion process. I suspect we will find that that is what is stamped on jags' pistol.