1920 Commercial Artillery Stock

George Anderson · 11-02-2008, 10:20 PM

If the stock is not marked "GERMANY" I would discount it being a 1920's commercial. It certainly looks like a good stock in that it appears to be made of European walnut and the steel to wood fit looks good.

There are far too many of these unused so called "commercial" stocks floating around the US for me to accept their being interwar commercials. I know that several years ago when visiting a Luger dealer in Arizona I asked about an artillery stock and he reached into a box and pulled out one of many in the box just like yours. At the time he said that they came from old German goods sold to Norway or Finland.

Since that time I have gotten wind of a possibility that they were all made in a tiny principality in Europe during the 60's. Right now I'm leaning toward the latter story.

One thing worthy of note about these so called commercial stocks is that they are always crisp and new with no patina at all to the wood and that they always have unused but freshly tapped guide holes for the attaching leather screws.

11-02-2008, 10:20 PM	#3
George Anderson Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: VA Posts: 3,592 Thanks: 1,773 Thanked 2,531 Times in 788 Posts	If the stock is not marked "GERMANY" I would discount it being a 1920's commercial. It certainly looks like a good stock in that it appears to be made of European walnut and the steel to wood fit looks good. There are far too many of these unused so called "commercial" stocks floating around the US for me to accept their being interwar commercials. I know that several years ago when visiting a Luger dealer in Arizona I asked about an artillery stock and he reached into a box and pulled out one of many in the box just like yours. At the time he said that they came from old German goods sold to Norway or Finland. Since that time I have gotten wind of a possibility that they were all made in a tiny principality in Europe during the 60's. Right now I'm leaning toward the latter story. One thing worthy of note about these so called commercial stocks is that they are always crisp and new with no patina at all to the wood and that they always have unused but freshly tapped guide holes for the attaching leather screws.