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Along the long journey of collecting C&R, it will be nice to have snapshot pictures of the collection periodically, say, once a year: put the collected pistols together, look at them, find the pattern among existing ones, and decide the next acquisition priorities.
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My favorite No. 11
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Wow!! Is this a Persian cut-away??
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My 2nd Favorite No. 1131
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An interesting broad brush summary of Lugers and collecting, sort of an "Introduction to Lugers" . The generalizations are OK but there are a couple of errors. There were 50, not 25, Model 1902 9mm Lugers with the Powell Indicating Device. The Swiss began manufacturing their own Lugers at Bern in 1918...the lable "1924 Bern" has been in common use for a long time and it is totally wrong.
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Another error...he did not invent it...he refined an existing design...
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I considered mentioning the "invented" reference but decided that was splitting hairs...he incorporated so many innovations that it almost was a re-invention. However, you are correct, it was a re-design of an existing concept.
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Very nice. Congratulations. . SN 11 has matured quite nicely since Alan Kelley imported and sold it in the 80s. The restorer's interpretation of the Farsi numeral 1 is somewhat imaginative. You can see what I mean if you compare them to the 1's on the 100 mm barrel Persian you posted here. FYI, when it arrived in the USA it had a mis-matched, non-cutout side plate (03), a non-matching magazine and a chamber date of 1936. Grips were pretty good and was estimated to have about 90 percent finish. Rare gun. Of the fifty only 39 eventually got to the USA and we have good data on only 25 of them. John |
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Or was Luger's 1899 patent the prototype for Borchardt's 1909 design??? (2nd pic)
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