1920 .30 cal DWM Luger?

[mrerick]

Originally Posted by r010159

"Yes (given that it's sometimes difficult to determine this in pictures), your Luger looks like it may be refinished to me. "k" block should be in 1922 or 1923.

What do you mean the "k" block? The SN ends in "h"

Well, the DWM Alphabet Commercial series started with suffix "i" in about 1922. They were 5 digit numeric before that.

If it really is an "h" something is seriously wrong.

I did my best to interpret what I could from your photo, which is unfortunately difficult to determine detail in.

We have a graphic of the script letters that DWM used in the FAQ PDF file. Take a look.

[r010159]

Now that I have the pistol field stripped, I can now see clearly that it is a "k". My mistake. Now in the same vein as reworked oistols, I found in the "The Blue Book of Gun Values" by S.P. Fjestad, he gives a description of the 1920 model. The following is an excerpt from that description. "...since these guns were assembled using the parts of previously manufactured Lugers, including 1900-1906 mfg. with the grip safety on the frame". This does not make any sense to me unless the parts were restamped, reassembled, and then reblued.