First luger! 1920 DWM

[Don M]

Originally Posted by Edward Tinker

Don, how many police guns have you seen without sear or mag safeties.

It is a blank looking sideplate with a police sear safety cut out? although it might be numbered underneath in the commercial style. How many people would have a replacement sideplate (no numbers) and cut out for a sear safety. Not many unless it was laying around.

The condition issues of this luger makes it a $600-$750 dollar gun in my opinion, its just interesting that it has these markings. HZA... it was in a depot repair at some point. They might have used a sideplate laying around or it might be an addition by Bob Smith in Oklahoma 6 years ago when the sideplate was missing or damaged.

The P08s that were issued to the barracked Bereitschaftspolizei do not have either sear or mag safeties. They were exempted from the 1933 order (HWIS pp. 36-7). Many other police P08s have sear but no mag safeties. This pistol apparently never had a sear safety (or a mag safety) and has no other indications of police service. John Sabato made the same observation earlier in this thread. I don't know who stuck the sideplate on this one.