Naval Artillery Luger

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George Anderson wrote this history for mine and it perfectly applies to yours! Originally made in the Royal Prussian arsenal at Erfurt. It was issued to the German Army in either 1914 -1915 seeing combat throughout WW1. In 1920 or soon there after a Weimer a Weimer property stamp of '1920' was added to the chamber in order to preclude subsequet theft during the the tumultuous early years of the Weimer Replubic. At some point during the Weimer period this pistol was put into service by the Reichmarine (Weimer Navy). In the late Weimer or early Nazi era (Kriegsmarine) the rear pistol grip was stamped with a Naval property stamp in the form of an upper case "M" above the anchor. Just below this marking is the naval property number is stamped ( in my case) '1649N' The 'N' indicates the pistol as having been assigned to the German (North Sea Fleet) which was headquatered at the port city of Wilhelmshaven."