1906 Portuguese Question

Doubs · 11-03-2020, 04:52 PM

While Gortz & Sturgess call the Portuguese Army Lugers M/1908, the Portuguese designated them as the M/909 meaning that they were adopted in 1909. They are all long frame of the 1906 pattern. They have their own serial number range of 1 ~ 5000 and were marked over the chamber with the Crown and intertwined M2 for King Manuel II.

When Manuel II was overthrown and a republic established, the Portuguese scrubbed the chambers on some - but not all - of their Lugers having the C/M2 impression. It appears that yours was one of the scrubbed ones.

The C/M2 was done with two different stamps; an early one and another after about serial number 3000. Yours would have been the early type.

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11-03-2020, 04:52 PM	#5
Doubs User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Byron, Georgia Posts: 1,742 Thanks: 826 Thanked 1,788 Times in 590 Posts	While Gortz & Sturgess call the Portuguese Army Lugers M/1908, the Portuguese designated them as the M/909 meaning that they were adopted in 1909. They are all long frame of the 1906 pattern. They have their own serial number range of 1 ~ 5000 and were marked over the chamber with the Crown and intertwined M2 for King Manuel II. When Manuel II was overthrown and a republic established, the Portuguese scrubbed the chambers on some - but not all - of their Lugers having the C/M2 impression. It appears that yours was one of the scrubbed ones. The C/M2 was done with two different stamps; an early one and another after about serial number 3000. Yours would have been the early type.