American Eagle Luger

sdmark777 · 02-24-2025, 01:41 PM

OK. I don't have the Sturgess book, so I can not see what you are looking at. But, perhaps it has a picture of the new grooved safety on a much later luger (one with gesichert) for comparison with the old checkered safety on serial #8592. Maybe Sturgess was lazy and did not include a pic of of the grooved safety on a 1900 with bare metal marking as would be less confusing. I am guessing the pic of the grooved safety with GESICHERT is not from serial # 8592. I don't know when GESICHERT started to be marked on the frame, but to my knowledge GESICHERT was not used until at least sometime after 1906. Am I wrong about that?

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02-24-2025, 01:41 PM	#12
sdmark777 User Join Date: Apr 2018 Posts: 301 Thanks: 721 Thanked 705 Times in 186 Posts	OK. I don't have the Sturgess book, so I can not see what you are looking at. But, perhaps it has a picture of the new grooved safety on a much later luger (one with gesichert) for comparison with the old checkered safety on serial #8592. Maybe Sturgess was lazy and did not include a pic of of the grooved safety on a 1900 with bare metal marking as would be less confusing. I am guessing the pic of the grooved safety with GESICHERT is not from serial # 8592. I don't know when GESICHERT started to be marked on the frame, but to my knowledge GESICHERT was not used until at least sometime after 1906. Am I wrong about that?