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[Patrick]

The German police nearly always had a sear safety on their Lugers. It is a spring that is riveted onto the sear and held in place with a small pin. It stops the receiver being fired when the gun has been dismantled. Even if the sear safety (called a Schiwy) is missing, the pin hole on top of the sear might be there. This would be proof that yours is a police Luger. Schutzpolizei was the standard police force. The organizational unit was the Hundertschaft (1 hundred men). K�¶slin is a town in what is now Poland but was then part of Germany. There is a very good reference book on Luger markings:German Small Arms Markings by Joachim G�¶rtz and Don L. Bryans (Walsworth Publishing Co., Marceline, MO). G�¶rtz is one of the two leading experts on Lugers. Patrick