1921 luger

[Dwight Gruber]

1921 dated Lugers come in several varieties.

In 1920 DWM began making P08s under contract to the newly-formed army weapons office. These pistols are found dated 1920 and 1921, serial-numbered in four-digit no-suffix, a, and b suffixes. They are found with various combinations of eagle/ArA4 and eagle/WaA4 acceptance and proof stamps. At this time the police procured their P08s through the army weapons office, so these pistols may be found with both army and police supplementary characteristics.

Some of these dated and army-accepted pistols are found with 5-digit commercial serial numbers, meaning that they were removed from the commercial production stream to fulfill the army contract.

In 1921 the Interallied Military Control Commission (IMKK) arrived in Germany and shut down DWM's military production. This left DWM with a parts stock of 1921 dated (but never assembled) receivers, which were used in production of the i suffix range alphabet commercial Lugers. These chamber-dated examples appear throughout the range, apparently at random.

--Dwight

[Don M]

Originally Posted by Dwight Gruber

In 1920 DWM began making P08s under contract to the newly-formed army weapons office. These pistols are found dated 1920 and 1921, serial-numbered in four-digit no-suffix, a, and b suffixes.

There were also at least 7500 1920-dated DWM P08s manufactured with n suffixes.