Yet another request for ID....

Dwight Gruber · 08-15-2004, 02:41 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by josephny:
The serial number, however, is below the bottom limit of the range stated, if I understand the range.<hr /></blockquote>Josephny,

The accuracy of the "range" depends on the Luger under discussion. There are many Lugers produced under contract for foreign militaries, and very often they will have their own documented serial# ranges, or documentation of the regular serial range they came from.

Others, particularly (but not only) German WWI and WWII military Lugers, are much less well documented in regards to production numbers and serial# ranges, because the documentation is not available or destroyed. In these cases the number ranges are based on observed or reported guns.

The books with the really comprehensive statistics which are the published sources for most of our general knowledge on this subject, are between 10 and 35 years old. As the WWII Veterans who are the repositories of vast numbers of Lugers pass on and their guns become known in collecting circles for the first time, new data becomes available to augment the older published figures. In addition, the internet facilitates the rapid transmission of this data.

So, having a Luger which is "out of" some particular range is not necessarily a problem, it is instead adding to and refining the body of knowledge already in our posession.

--Dwight

08-15-2004, 02:41 PM	#1
Dwight Gruber User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Portland, Oregon Posts: 3,908 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1,330 Times in 435 Posts	</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">Originally posted by josephny: <strong>The serial number, however, is below the bottom limit of the range stated, if I understand the range.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">Josephny, The accuracy of the "range" depends on the Luger under discussion. There are many Lugers produced under contract for foreign militaries, and very often they will have their own documented serial# ranges, or documentation of the regular serial range they came from. Others, particularly (but not only) German WWI and WWII military Lugers, are much less well documented in regards to production numbers and serial# ranges, because the documentation is not available or destroyed. In these cases the number ranges are based on observed or reported guns. The books with the really comprehensive statistics which are the published sources for most of our general knowledge on this subject, are between 10 and 35 years old. As the WWII Veterans who are the repositories of vast numbers of Lugers pass on and their guns become known in collecting circles for the first time, new data becomes available to augment the older published figures. In addition, the internet facilitates the rapid transmission of this data. So, having a Luger which is "out of" some particular range is not necessarily a problem, it is instead adding to and refining the body of knowledge already in our posession. --Dwight