new here, hope for some help

alanint · 01-10-2013, 09:55 AM

Hi Greg,

Welcome to the forum. WW1 Lugers were manufactured in blocks of 10,000, starting with 1-9,999, then 1-9,999, letter suffix "A", then "B" etc. for each year of manufature

Does your serial number have a letter suffix? If not, it would have been made in the first number block of the year on the gun's chamber.

Is the "1920" on your chamber alone, or with what looks like another, earlier date? If ther are two "dates", then the "1920" is not a date but a Wiemar Goverment property code.

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01-10-2013, 09:55 AM	#2
alanint User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Marco Island, Florida Posts: 4,867 Thanks: 1,685 Thanked 1,917 Times in 1,193 Posts	Hi Greg, Welcome to the forum. WW1 Lugers were manufactured in blocks of 10,000, starting with 1-9,999, then 1-9,999, letter suffix "A", then "B" etc. for each year of manufature Does your serial number have a letter suffix? If not, it would have been made in the first number block of the year on the gun's chamber. Is the "1920" on your chamber alone, or with what looks like another, earlier date? If ther are two "dates", then the "1920" is not a date but a Wiemar Goverment property code.