Markings on my "new" Swiss

[mrerick]

Hi Scott, and welcome to the forum.

With a 1933 date, you have a 06/29 W+F Swiss Luger.

From this period, these typically have red canvesite grips, which are remarkable breakable. Be very careful handling it.

The P is the privatization mark struck when it was sold to the officer that carried it upon retirement.

While it was typical for the Swiss arsenal to refinish and rework their Lugers, many of these are in remarkably fine original condition. I have two from 1935 and 1938 that have almost perfect original very dark salt blued and slightly plum finish.

I think that in this period they had some metallurgy and bluing finish issues that lead to the plum color. This is present on my pistols, and also on a replacement barrel on a M1900 that was probably reworked in this period.

The "N" mark is Sig Neunhausen's mark. They made many of the component parts of these Lugers.

The CG relates to the alloy of metal the part is made from.

The BP mark is the firing proof mark.

These are the highest precision Lugers I know of, and I like them very much. Is your's visibly import marked. Most are. Sometimes (prior to 2000) they were import marked under the grips.

Marc