New collector with three new Lugers pt.2

Dwight Gruber · 04-01-2008, 10:13 PM

Gordon,

Thanks very much for the look at your vary nice 20DWM Safe/Loaded, it is a new number to the database.

Alvin,

1906 American Eagles usually have an extractor marked LOADED. 20DWM (the preferred designation for the variation formerly known as "1923 Commercial") usually have an extractor marked GELADEN. Occasionally a 20DWM will be found marked SAFE and LOADED; very occasionally these are found with American Eagles on the chamber. Conventional wisdom has it that these were provided by special order.

In 1921 a series of 2,000 pistols were assembled including the range sn 89734-91531, marked Safe/Loaded. These were a special order by the firm A.F. Stoeger; Gordon's gun is one of these.

--Dwight

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Dwight Gruber User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Portland, Oregon Posts: 3,908 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1,330 Times in 435 Posts	Gordon, Thanks very much for the look at your vary nice 20DWM Safe/Loaded, it is a new number to the database. Alvin, 1906 American Eagles usually have an extractor marked LOADED. 20DWM (the preferred designation for the variation formerly known as "1923 Commercial") usually have an extractor marked GELADEN. Occasionally a 20DWM will be found marked SAFE and LOADED; very occasionally these are found with American Eagles on the chamber. Conventional wisdom has it that these were provided by special order. In 1921 a series of 2,000 pistols were assembled including the range sn 89734-91531, marked Safe/Loaded. These were a special order by the firm A.F. Stoeger; Gordon's gun is one of these. --Dwight