Weimer Lugers

Johnny Peppers · 09-08-2002, 08:39 PM

Stevie,
If you have an interest in the Weimar era Lugers, you should get Jan Still's "Weimar and Early Nazi Lugers" book. It sheds new light and information on the Lugers of that particular era. There is a very interesting section on the "1920" and "1923" Commercials.
Many terms are so ingrained in the lexicon of Luger collectors that we will probably have them as long as people collect Lugers. A while back there was a "double date" Luger at oldguns.net with a lengthy explaination that the 1920 was the date the pistol was rebuilt. While 1920 was possibly the year the pistol was rebuilt, nevertherless the information as presented was wrong. I e-mailed them a nice message explaining the origin of the 1920 stamp which apparently they chose to disregard. Explaining that I had a 1921 dated DWM with the 1920 stamp added didn't faze their preconceived knowledge of what they were advertising.
We will see old terms die hard as a dealer must advertise using the terms recognized by the average Luger collector.

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09-08-2002, 08:39 PM	#6
Johnny Peppers User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Calion, Arkansas Posts: 1,042 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Stevie, If you have an interest in the Weimar era Lugers, you should get Jan Still's "Weimar and Early Nazi Lugers" book. It sheds new light and information on the Lugers of that particular era. There is a very interesting section on the "1920" and "1923" Commercials. Many terms are so ingrained in the lexicon of Luger collectors that we will probably have them as long as people collect Lugers. A while back there was a "double date" Luger at oldguns.net with a lengthy explaination that the 1920 was the date the pistol was rebuilt. While 1920 was possibly the year the pistol was rebuilt, nevertherless the information as presented was wrong. I e-mailed them a nice message explaining the origin of the 1920 stamp which apparently they chose to disregard. Explaining that I had a 1921 dated DWM with the 1920 stamp added didn't faze their preconceived knowledge of what they were advertising. We will see old terms die hard as a dealer must advertise using the terms recognized by the average Luger collector.