Mystery Luger frame

[Olle]

Originally Posted by alanint

Is it otherwise completely finished and ready to accept parts?

There are many stories of end of war/post war GIs visiting the German gun factories and helping themselves to anything that was lying around. This may be the source of this frame.

Yes, it seems to be finished and ready to assemble. I assume that these guns were fitted and numbered before they were blued, so what throws me off is that it's blued and doesn't have a serial number. It could be reblued, but it doesn't show any dings, dents or anything else that would indicate that it has been used.

Originally Posted by mrerick

I created a post that shows unique machining for a variety of frame producers in the rear interior area of the frame. It's at:

http://forum.lugerforum.com/showthre...ht=frame+study

This might help you.

Does the frame have the Mauser hump at the rear?

Marc

It doesn't have the Mauser hump, and the milling looks like the DWMs in the link. I still need to take pictures, that should give you a better idea of which version it is.

One funny thing is that I tried a set of grips on it, and they wouldn't fit very well. It's like the grip frame is a tad too short. I guess that some hand fitting would be normal, but none of the two sets I tried would fit. One set is old and worn and has a sloppy fit on my other Lugers, but on this frame I couldn't even press them on.

[Olle]

I ran out on the deck and snapped a few pictures, I hope they are good enough for a positive ID.