No Fine tune sights and Unit Marked 1917 L P08 "Artillery"

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by DonVoigt

This pistol is in fine condition, matching except replacement beech grips and mis-matched beech base magazine.

I've read here that some original artillery Lugers can be found with mismatched rear sights. (Numbers that don't match). Can you add anything to this? Do all your rear sight numbers match the serial last-two?

[DonVoigt]

Originally Posted by sheepherder

I've read here that some original artillery Lugers can be found with mismatched rear sights. (Numbers that don't match). Can you add anything to this? Do all your rear sight numbers match the serial last-two?

Rear sights have a couple assembly numbers and pistol numbers(last 2 digits) in at least 3 places.

IIRC, the ones you can see must/should match the pistol serial to be matching.

Of course sight parts are pretty fragile, I expect many were lost or replaced along the way, so yes there are lugers with mismatched rear sights. But they didn't start out that way at DWM.