1918/1920 DWM Police P 08 - a little different

[Don M]

Is it just the angle of the photos or does this pistol lack a stock lug? If so, it is even more of a "hybrid."

Re the left side of the receiver: Maybe it was scrubbed to remove something else, such as a horizontal commercial C/N proof. I don't see any traces of it, however.

[Sergio Natali]

Don M.

You're right but it's not that uncommon to find a double date without stock lug.
Am I wrong to say that for instance stock lugs on P08s used by the Wiesbaden Schupo command were removed by the police, probably at the insistence of French occupation forces based largely on a similar practice in the French-occupied portions of Hessen and of Wiesbaden after WWI as they feared that stock lugs would have eased the use of these Lugers as carbines.


Sergio

[Don M]

Sergio, you are correct about the guns with stock lugs removed probably at the insistence of occupying French forces. However, in the Wiesbaden administrative district, only the city of Wiesbaden (S.W.II.) was occupied and Frankfurt (S.W.I.) was not. I have never seen a Frankfurt Schupo P08 with the stock lug removed.

I'm thinking the frame may be from an early DWM P08 manufactured without a stock lug.

[DonVoigt]

Don M. and Sergio,
thanks for your ideas, the pistol is indeed a "slick back".

Originally Posted by Don M

Sergio, you are correct about the guns with stock lugs removed probably at the insistence of occupying French forces. However, in the Wiesbaden administrative district, only the city of Wiesbaden (S.W.II.) was occupied and Frankfurt (S.W.I.) was not. I have never seen a Frankfurt Schupo P08 with the stock lug removed.

I'm thinking the frame may be from an early DWM P08 manufactured without a stock lug.