Blank Toggle DWM/BKIW Lugers

[Don M]

Joop, thank you very much for clarifying this. It certainly does help although I am now less certain that I fully understand this issue than I was a few days ago.

Ron, I am coming around to your theory that additional blank-toggle Lugers were manufactured by BKIW for the police before they shut down their Luger production at the end of 1929. They clearly had very large orders from the Prussian and Hessian police to fulfill. The need to rearm the Prussian Landjägerei alone accounted for some 8,000 to 9,000 Lugers. It would have been in everyone's interest to use the Riff Contract Lugers to fulfill part of that requirement. It is pure speculation but there may have been a decision taken with regard the Prussian pistols to supply blank toggles for the sake of uniformity. Admittedly, this does not explain the 15% of DWM toggles observed but it's the best I can come up with at the moment. Whatever the explanation, I really don't believe there was any "sneakiness" involved!