Recoil Lug Serial Numbering...?

Dwight Gruber · 09-18-2002, 04:25 AM

Recoil lug markings observed on single guns:

1914 Erfurt LP08 letter & symbol stamps
1917 DWM LP08 letter & symbol stamps
1917 DWM Navy letter & symbol stamps, last two digits of serial#
1900AE last three digits of (5-digit) serial#
1936 S/42 letter stamp
1920 DWM Commercial no marks

The 1910/1914 orders for marking the P-08 (Still, Imperial Lugers) shows no marking specified for the recoil lug. Still (ibid.) shows a 1908 Commercial with the last two digits of a 5-digit number; and (in Weimar Lugers) a 1921 DWM, Swiss Cross chamber marking, Abercrombie & Fitch, with no marking.

--Dwight

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09-18-2002, 04:25 AM	#5
Dwight Gruber User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Portland, Oregon Posts: 3,908 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1,330 Times in 435 Posts	Recoil lug markings observed on single guns: 1914 Erfurt LP08 letter & symbol stamps 1917 DWM LP08 letter & symbol stamps 1917 DWM Navy letter & symbol stamps, last two digits of serial# 1900AE last three digits of (5-digit) serial# 1936 S/42 letter stamp 1920 DWM Commercial no marks The 1910/1914 orders for marking the P-08 (Still, Imperial Lugers) shows no marking specified for the recoil lug. Still (ibid.) shows a 1908 Commercial with the last two digits of a 5-digit number; and (in Weimar Lugers) a 1921 DWM, Swiss Cross chamber marking, Abercrombie & Fitch, with no marking. --Dwight