My 1929 'sneak' police............

[NoncomRetired]

Originally Posted by Edward Tinker

I think parts of it were reblued. The lettering on the underside of the barrel is pretty faint looking to me.

Many folks will talk about a gun like this as being refurbished or arsenal redone. This is always possible, but the strawed parts would be strawed and there would be markings showing it was refurbed. A later barrel would be marked by the arsenal or maker marking (such as an eagle 6) - the suffix WOULD be the same for the barrel and the frame. But that suffix looks too low to me?

It is possible that a previous owner had a luger or two that were post 1937 and thought that they should be blued and thus had them blued, and /or that they were steel colored and thus they tried to fix them.

What we are seeing is a commercial luger that went into police service. The unit marking book for WW1 army, I have up for sale written by Jeff Noll. For Police unit markings, either Don's book or ours....


Ed

Now is when I wish a few of you fellows lived next door. Hard to get the right photos are the right angle to show what it is in actuality.

Don's book arrived day before yesterday and I plan to get your police book end of the month. Your WWI unit marking book is now on my shopping list.

Thanks for your observation.......... I want to get the parts that were blued back to straw. I have read and re-read the thread here about the procedure. I would like to try strawing but I'm going to leave it to someone who has done it before and does do it as a sideline. Does any member here do this type of work?