Wooden (Mauser C96 Style) Stock for 1913 Artillery

mauro · 10-21-2002, 05:41 PM

Ciao Albert,
as you know is a pleasure for me to speak w/ you about this kind of topics.
I agree with you that the holster presented on Kenyon's book seems new and this is very suspect.

What I stated in my previous reply is only an hypothesis based on the fact that the year stamped on the holster is 1914 and the AWM is a Artillery army firm that develops solutions for artillery.
In which way to harmonise this condition?
It is usual that army technical firms (AWM, Erfurt, SpandauÃ¢?Â¦) develop new solutions also after gun acceptance. If you look at the history of Swiss Luger, the Swiss army center develops a lot of luger variations that do not reach production: for example different kind of barrel, stock and also a prototype that is very similar to an Arty Luger (prototype number E771 - EidgenÃ?Â¶ssische Waffenfabrik Bern - pp 103 BobbaÃ¢??s book).
Therefore it is realistic that, at the end of acceptance test, some of LP08 used for this purpose were sent to AWM and this army center uses these pistols to check other solutions for particular purposes.

This is only a way to justify a pre-1913 LP08, used in acceptance test, in a 1914 one-of-a-kind military holster.

I give you the book reference in which you can find some others information:

Joachim Gortz Ã¢?? Die Pistole 08 (pp. 172).

Ciao

10-21-2002, 05:41 PM	#9
mauro FIREARM HISTORIAN AND AUT Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Belgium Posts: 1,535 Thanks: 106 Thanked 350 Times in 129 Posts	Ciao Albert, as you know is a pleasure for me to speak w/ you about this kind of topics. I agree with you that the holster presented on Kenyon's book seems new and this is very suspect. What I stated in my previous reply is only an hypothesis based on the fact that the year stamped on the holster is 1914 and the AWM is a Artillery army firm that develops solutions for artillery. In which way to harmonise this condition? It is usual that army technical firms (AWM, Erfurt, SpandauÃ¢?Â¦) develop new solutions also after gun acceptance. If you look at the history of Swiss Luger, the Swiss army center develops a lot of luger variations that do not reach production: for example different kind of barrel, stock and also a prototype that is very similar to an Arty Luger (prototype number E771 - EidgenÃ?Â¶ssische Waffenfabrik Bern - pp 103 BobbaÃ¢??s book). Therefore it is realistic that, at the end of acceptance test, some of LP08 used for this purpose were sent to AWM and this army center uses these pistols to check other solutions for particular purposes. This is only a way to justify a pre-1913 LP08, used in acceptance test, in a 1914 one-of-a-kind military holster. I give you the book reference in which you can find some others information: Joachim Gortz Ã¢?? Die Pistole 08 (pp. 172). Ciao __________________ Mauro Baudino - www.lugerlp08.com www.paul-mauser-archive.com Mauser Company and Firearm Historian - Mauser Parabellum Certification Service.