Commercial .30 --what can you tell me about it?

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Originally Posted by phoneman517191

I am surprised that there are machine milling marks above the safety lever. I would have thought that the finish would have been of higher quality at this time of manufacture.

Early DWM Lugers were often free of milling marks; finished beautifully. (Erfurt, a Royal military arsenal, never finished their Lugers as well as DWM, a private company) My father once owned a 1915 DWM Artillery model that he said had absolutely no milling marks anywhere. As the war dragged on, milling marks being polished out became less important as demand increased. After the war Germany was in dire straits for hard cash and while DWM made excellent Lugers, they weren't quite as well finished as pre-war guns.