Can You Help Me Identify This Luger?

[mrerick]

Hello and welcome to the forum.

What you have appears to be a M1900 pattern Luger.

Is there a part missing in the toggle retention? If so, be careful, and don't fire it. There also appears to be a retention spring broken or missing from the takedown lever.

The magazine is WW-II vintage, but the gun is much earlier.

Soft buffed edges on the frame look like the pistol was refinished at some point.

It also looks like it probably has a .30 Luger caliber barrel on it. Someone has replaced the left and right grip screws with an incorrect part, and probably damaged the Whitworth threads in the frame.

I'd need to see details of the exterior markings to tell you much more. Are the other markings still visible, or were they and things like the serial numbers removed? The small "D" is not a normal Luger marking, and may have been applied by the person that reworked the gun.

Officers did not usually carry Lugers. They were too large and bulky. Officers carried smaller pistols like the Walther PP and PPK.

As the serial numbers appear to have been removed, this will cause you problems with the ATF. I believe that there is a procedure for submitting it to have serial numbers applied to the pistol and make it legal.