Questions - 1900 commercial?

[Edward Tinker]

sorry, I disagree on the magazine issue - sometimes some mags will be extra tight and others will work fine. It just depends on the frame.

I would agree that most mags will work fairly well, but I would not say they just work.

As far as I know, 1900's were acceptance marked and proofed, only ones without any markings would be the ones for the time frame of the tests (sn 6000-8000 approx)


Ed

[Ron Wood]

Originally Posted by Edward Tinker

sorry, I disagree on the magazine issue - sometimes some mags will be extra tight and others will work fine. It just depends on the frame.

I would agree that most mags will work fairly well, but I would not say they just work.

As far as I know, 1900's were acceptance marked and proofed, only ones without any markings would be the ones for the time frame of the tests (sn 6000-8000 approx)


Ed

It seems that acceptance marking and proofing on 1900s are a bit hit or miss. I do not have a lot of examples to cite, but I do know that some early 1900 Lugers have neither acceptance markings or proofs, i.e. I have 1900 AE, # 2136 that has no proofs. I think perhaps that the early commercial pieces that were produced for export were not required by German proof laws to be marked.

[Dwight Gruber]

Originally Posted by Edward Tinker

...sometimes some mags will be extra tight and others will work fine. It just depends on the frame...

The problem is more often (not exclusively) that the follower button hangs up on the interior of the grip.

--Dwight