New Member & my newly bought 41 byf 'Black Widow'

[mrerick]

Also, the inside "5" digit on your trigger plate looks like it has serifs on the digit.




I haven't seen one with tooling marks like that (although it wasn't a normally visible area). It is hard to see exactly what's in there from the photo. I can't actually tell if it is a "5" digit.

I don't believe that Mauser used dies inside there with serif fonts. They were simple sans serif fonts. Your pistol's side plate should have the first digit of your serial number +1. Your serial digits are 402 so the number "5" should be stamped in there.

Often when a side plate was missing, you looked for one with the same last 2 digits stamped on the outside. This part fitment is critical to the function of the Luger, so Mauser started linking the plate to the specific firearm it left the factory on. for that reason one plate in 10,000 will be numbered to match a Mauser Luger. If the number 5 isn't stamped inside the plate, it was replaced at some point.

Marc