Artillery rig- need pics

klaus 3338 · 11-19-2009, 11:33 AM

Mauro,
I looked at my archive and found some documents which may be of interest for you and other collectors, too.
On some old photos we see a soldier armed with a LP08 and 3 (!) mag pouches.
Handwritten sentences on the two attached documents point to using 3 mag pouches with each LP08. So there must be 7 magazines with each LP08 for a short (early) time. Later two or in some cases only one double mag pouch were used with the LP08. So the LP08 came with 5 or only 3 magazines “in later days”.

During the years I picked up many mag pouches. In some cases were clips with underlined T acceptance marks inside. Some years ago, when the new gun law was introduced into U.K., I met an English collector who wanted to sell a 1917 dated Luger rig. In the mag- pouch were clips with the acceptance mark as on the photo. I observed this several times. It seems that from 1917 on the spare clips for the long Luger came with the C/T underline instead of the serial numbers.

I know that my English is not the best but hope you will understand what I mean.

Regards Klaus

11-19-2009, 11:33 AM	#15
klaus 3338 User Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Germany Posts: 519 Thanks: 0 Thanked 417 Times in 162 Posts	Mauro, I looked at my archive and found some documents which may be of interest for you and other collectors, too. On some old photos we see a soldier armed with a LP08 and 3 (!) mag pouches. Handwritten sentences on the two attached documents point to using 3 mag pouches with each LP08. So there must be 7 magazines with each LP08 for a short (early) time. Later two or in some cases only one double mag pouch were used with the LP08. So the LP08 came with 5 or only 3 magazines “in later days”. During the years I picked up many mag pouches. In some cases were clips with underlined T acceptance marks inside. Some years ago, when the new gun law was introduced into U.K., I met an English collector who wanted to sell a 1917 dated Luger rig. In the mag- pouch were clips with the acceptance mark as on the photo. I observed this several times. It seems that from 1917 on the spare clips for the long Luger came with the C/T underline instead of the serial numbers. I know that my English is not the best but hope you will understand what I mean. Regards Klaus Attached Thumbnails