Bogus '04 pistols

[Pete Ebbink]

Found an interesting passage in the book "The Navy Luger" by Gortz/Walter on page 25 :

"...Many of the surviving interim-model navy Parabellums, however, are now found with 60 degree-cut toggle-grips and the three-piece toggle-lock. These are generally dismissed as fakes, but some caution is advisable; though some are indeed suspect, produced by fitting genuine Pistolen 1904 (which I think is the 1906 Navy model) with Old Model toggle-links, there may have been two manufacturing patterns. DWM could easily have changed the toggle-grip style duiring the period in which the interim models were being made - All New Model guns display 60 degree dicing - and the spring-steel toggle-lock may have proved so ineffuctual that a reversion to the three-part assembly was authorized...".

Maybe some of the "above # 200" pistols could be explained both by some bogus guns and some 2nd. variation guns; if you agree with Gortz/Walter speculation...

If all above # 200 are suspect, someone sacrificed a lot of decent 1906 Navy pistols and some 1900 Old Model pistols to end up with these bogus 1904's...accroding to Ron Wood's count of over # 200 pistols, this would mean 14-1906 Navy and 14-1900 Old Model lugers were donated to make alot of 1904 Navy "creations"...

Regards,

Pete... <img border="0" alt="[typing]" title="" src="graemlins/yltype.gif" />