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09-12-2020, 05:13 PM | #1 |
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Erfurt 1917/18 marked luger on GB
I saw this on Gun Broker and wondered if the 1917/18 marked chamber date was legit. I have not seen that with war years guns, but I am a novice forever learning. If legit, why was it done?
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09-12-2020, 06:51 PM | #2 |
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Hundred percent legit. A friend of mine has a 1917/18 dated artillery model that his great uncle brought back from WWI.
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The sear bar is not original to the gun. By 1917 the sear bars were relieved and this one is not. It came from an earlier gun.
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Since receivers were dated early in the mfg. process, at the end of the year some , in this case 1917 dated receivers were not assembled to the point of final inspection, thus in January of 1918 the requirement to date it 1918 was tripped. So the receiver/pistol started in 1917 was finished in 1918, so the "/18" was added. I have one of these myself; A 1918 receiver not finished until 1920. I suspect it lay unfinished throughout 1919, and must have been completed early in 1920, before the Versailles Treaty was completely implemented. It also has provisional Weimar Reichswehr markings.
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09-12-2020, 11:35 PM | #6 |
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Thank you for the responses. I sure didn't know they did that. Very interesting.
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