Can You Help Me Identify This Luger?

Ron Wood · 09-22-2017, 12:51 PM

Bill,
Those are great photos, thank you for adding them! I am confident that my assessment of the toggle lock modification is correct…pressing the knurled top “button” allows the latch to be disconnected without pulling back on the toggle. The large extended button on the takedown lever makes it easier to rotate the lever for disassembly/assembly. The modifications are clever additions by a relatively talented gunsmith, either for himself or for a client who may have had arthritis or some other problem that made it difficult to operate the functions of the gun…or he may have done it just as an exercise in improving ergonomics! At any rate it is an interesting piece and I have enjoyed seeing it.
Ron

09-22-2017, 12:51 PM	#16
Ron Wood Moderator 2010 LugerForum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Santa Teresa New Mexico just outside of the West Texas town of El Paso Posts: 7,051 Thanks: 1,120 Thanked 5,287 Times in 1,728 Posts	Bill, Those are great photos, thank you for adding them! I am confident that my assessment of the toggle lock modification is correct…pressing the knurled top “button” allows the latch to be disconnected without pulling back on the toggle. The large extended button on the takedown lever makes it easier to rotate the lever for disassembly/assembly. The modifications are clever additions by a relatively talented gunsmith, either for himself or for a client who may have had arthritis or some other problem that made it difficult to operate the functions of the gun…or he may have done it just as an exercise in improving ergonomics! At any rate it is an interesting piece and I have enjoyed seeing it. Ron __________________ If it's made after 1918...it's a reproduction