MY NEW LUGER P08 (help with markings!)

fantomark · 09-05-2007, 04:48 AM

THANKS RICHARD!

....you are 100% correct.
I examined the gun and the mark is clearly NPv - so it's Vienna!

The VOH stil remains a mistery .
LUGERDOC suggested it might be a poorly struck "VONO" who was reworking lugers during and after WW2. Or that it may just be the initials of the smith that altered this luger to a 9x21 Caliber.

I doublechecked and I found that the VOH is really neatly struck so it can't be VONO.
Also no one here in Italy seem to know about a gunsmith with VOH as its intitials (in fact over here we virtually have no Italian names/surnames starting with an H....
As I said I thought it could stand for VOlks Heer (ie: People's Army In Eastern Germany, like VOPO stand for VOlks POlizei, but I may be wrong of course....

09-05-2007, 04:48 AM	#9
fantomark User Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: milano, italy Posts: 30 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	THANKS RICHARD! ....you are 100% correct. I examined the gun and the mark is clearly NPv - so it's Vienna! The VOH stil remains a mistery . LUGERDOC suggested it might be a poorly struck "VONO" who was reworking lugers during and after WW2. Or that it may just be the initials of the smith that altered this luger to a 9x21 Caliber. I doublechecked and I found that the VOH is really neatly struck so it can't be VONO. Also no one here in Italy seem to know about a gunsmith with VOH as its intitials (in fact over here we virtually have no Italian names/surnames starting with an H.... As I said I thought it could stand for VOlks Heer (ie: People's Army In Eastern Germany, like VOPO stand for VOlks POlizei, but I may be wrong of course....