Question on inverted serial letter suffix on Luger

[John Sabato]

Originally Posted by Ron Wood

Two cents back at you John...the markings on the magazines are upside down "n". Neither open leg of a "u" have a "curl" at the end and there are two starting Ron, and ending strokes of a "u", both at the rounded bottom. Ed's tutorial (post #4) clearly shows this.

I stand corrected on the identification of the "N" as a "U" I based my opinion on my examination of the photos and didn't open Ed's reference article... My bad.

Ron is correct, they are upside down "N" characters...

...on the matter of the re-stamping of the serial number. I am still of the opinion that the mags were re-stamped... the font is not the same as the pistol... the #3 has a flat top on the mags and the rounded top #3 is used on the pistol frame. While this may be possible, I am still not of the opinion that mixing fonts was likely during this time (1941-42) manufacturing process.