Matching Magazines

Heinz · 10-14-2002, 09:32 PM

Policeluger, Here is my point. I have a 1915 Police. It has a matching numbered magazine. The magazine is a Hanel Schmeiser and has a wooden bottom with the correct serial, the *K, and the +.
It did not leave DWM with that magazine. When it got it is and will always be a manner of conjecture. I think it is Weimar, but who knows.

The German army at some point ceased to care if magazines matched. This appears to have been in WW1.

Collectors now care about matching magazines and suddenly there are lots of them. Some of them are original but in my opinion many of them are not. The Police reworks seem to have more of a chance of matching BUT a Schmieser numbered correctly to an Imperial Luger is a later replacement and shows that magazines were replaced with renumbers, ditto for the VOPO reworks.

I am not doubting your opinion on the pieces you have mentioned.

10-14-2002, 09:32 PM	#16
Heinz User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Greenville SC Posts: 1,004 Thanks: 377 Thanked 411 Times in 180 Posts	Policeluger, Here is my point. I have a 1915 Police. It has a matching numbered magazine. The magazine is a Hanel Schmeiser and has a wooden bottom with the correct serial, the *K, and the +. It did not leave DWM with that magazine. When it got it is and will always be a manner of conjecture. I think it is Weimar, but who knows. The German army at some point ceased to care if magazines matched. This appears to have been in WW1. Collectors now care about matching magazines and suddenly there are lots of them. Some of them are original but in my opinion many of them are not. The Police reworks seem to have more of a chance of matching BUT a Schmieser numbered correctly to an Imperial Luger is a later replacement and shows that magazines were replaced with renumbers, ditto for the VOPO reworks. I am not doubting your opinion on the pieces you have mentioned.