Magazine Trade - Values?

Silvereagle29 · 04-05-2003, 05:03 PM

Just a thought, any re-numbered magazine can be easily detected, as Norm said above they generally are rather amateurish. On the other hand,some were actually re-numbered in Germany during the big conflict. Unfortunately, it's very difficult to determine who did the work, WaAUSA or the Germans. Certainly, a few by the Military but most were done by the Police. In my opinion, the re-numbered Police magazines are ugly but normally correct.

As for black plastic based fxo magazines, I believe Mauser numbered a few and found it to be extremely time consuming due to the method used to number the magazines. The normal method was not suitable because many were broken in the process. Consequently, about the - w - suffix of the 41-byf production Mauser nearly stopped numbering all P 08 magazines. In my travels, I have seen several of these numbered black plastic base magazines and have about four in my personal collection.

I recently purchased about 150 numbered wood bases from a dealer in Europe. The bottoms are DWM, Erfurt, Navy and a few blanks. They will all be on Luger magazine list 018, too late for 017

04-05-2003, 05:03 PM	#5
Silvereagle29 User Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Washington State Posts: 105 Thanks: 0 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts	Just a thought, any re-numbered magazine can be easily detected, as Norm said above they generally are rather amateurish. On the other hand,some were actually re-numbered in Germany during the big conflict. Unfortunately, it's very difficult to determine who did the work, WaAUSA or the Germans. Certainly, a few by the Military but most were done by the Police. In my opinion, the re-numbered Police magazines are ugly but normally correct. As for black plastic based fxo magazines, I believe Mauser numbered a few and found it to be extremely time consuming due to the method used to number the magazines. The normal method was not suitable because many were broken in the process. Consequently, about the - w - suffix of the 41-byf production Mauser nearly stopped numbering all P 08 magazines. In my travels, I have seen several of these numbered black plastic base magazines and have about four in my personal collection. I recently purchased about 150 numbered wood bases from a dealer in Europe. The bottoms are DWM, Erfurt, Navy and a few blanks. They will all be on Luger magazine list 018, too late for 017