Gunbroker: EXCEPTIONAL DWM 1908 9MM LUGER W/EXTRA MAGAZINE, HOLSTER & TOOLS FULL RIG

[Lyn Islaub]

It should have a polished area under the safety lever, wonder why the seller didn't show that area? I just bought one of these early commercial pistols in the 64000 range and it came with a Cal/9MM magazine (an original one no less) and I had thought all these early 9MM commercial pistols originally had one. Hard to believe that bidding is in excess of $5.5K, even for an original.

[Pistol]

Originally Posted by Lyn Islaub

It should have a polished area under the safety lever, wonder why the seller didn't show that area? I just bought one of these early commercial pistols in the 64000 range and it came with a Cal/9MM magazine (an original one no less) and I had thought all these early 9MM commercial pistols originally had one. Hard to believe that bidding is in excess of $5.5K, even for an original.

I thought the 1908 commercials came with blank wood bottom mags and it was the 1906 commercials that came with Cal/9mm marked bottoms?

[Yakman]

Lyn Islaub, The area under the safety lever of this 1908 Commercial would not be polished. Think if you have ever seen a polished safety indication on a Luger with a down safety. The features on this gun would be the same as the original military P.08 of which it is a clone, so to speak. Although it is written somewhere that a few of the later '08 Commercials had a hold-open device added. I don't know if that's correct or not.

Jack

[Dwight Gruber]

Originally Posted by Yakman

...Although it is written somewhere that a few of the later '08 Commercials had a hold-open device added. I don't know if that's correct or not...

Jack,

Getting a little far afield from the original topic, but...it is possible for an 08Comercial to have a holdopen added. These guns were originally intended for the officer private purchase market. Just before the start of the war there was a general recall of the P08 to the Erfurt rifle factory, to refit them with holdopens and new front sights. An officer's pistol could be included in his troop's shipment for refit. If so, the work would bear the refit armorer's mark on the frame by the added pin, and on the front sight. These markings on a five-digit commercial P08 are in fact the only way to positively identify an officer private purchase pistol.

I once owned an 08Commercial with a holdopen added in a decidedly non-standard fashion http://forum.lugerforum.com/showthre...t=non-standard

--Dwight