Is this the proper place to get ID for my commercial Luger?

[Hoyt Weathers]

Thanks Dwight. Taking acceptable pictures will take a while. After I am reasonably satisfied with them, it may take forever and a day for an email with those attachements to fly out of my computer and get into yours. I will do it though. Keep bugging me to get it done! I do have DIRCWAY satelite Internet for my Mac G4 though, so that should help on the outbound msg.

Just this morning I had a flash of the obvious and looked in my copy of "WEIMAR AND EARLY NAZI LUGERS" by Jan C. Still. On page 263 therein is a picture of a 20 DWM, SN 83058, which is only a few numbers above mine which is SN 81181, which looks exactly like mine. It does not appear to have any number on the safety sear bar (part name?). Mine does not. It that part original? My chamber is not dated and there are no military stampings on it.

Since there are many parts with either numbers or unkown marks on them, I will slog ahead and take macro pics of all parts and then email them to Dwight { dwightg@pacifier.com }

For now I believe my Luger is a 1920 DWM Commercial.

Hoyt Weathers
Morgan County in sight of the Tennessee River
Trinity, Alabama
Retired NASA engineer