serial number question

[Jim_C.]

Originally Posted by Mac Cat

That non-suffix batch were issued in March 1940. (G&S page 865)
While they don't say which suffix, there were about 10,000 Lugers issued each month.
The Y and Z suffix were left overs from 1939, so the no suffix came out in the spring.
Mauser didn't reset at the beginning of the new year - the war was in going on.

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