New Luger. Can someone help tell me what I found?

[DonVoigt]

Originally Posted by Iannn

Kyrie did you ever find out why our barrels are like this? Assuming the same thing happened to yours that happened to mine.......

Besides the Treaty of Versailles theory which is apparently suspect I have not seen any other reason.

The numbers are really not a mystery or of special interest, they were put there by the guy/shop/rebuilder that re-barreled your luger.

"He" did it to ID the pieces for re-assembly; quite likely the barrel was fitted, chambered and head spaced and then removed so just the barrel could be blued, then re-installed.

The barrel shows a "better" finish with less wear, loo at the bottom where you took the picture- you can see the nice blue on the barrel and less blue on the receiver.