Need Info on 1918 1920 Luger (Picts)

[Dwight Gruber]

Ed,

Perhaps to test hardness consistency throught the piece.

Howard,

Random parts testing. Nothing says its not a police "thing", one way or another.

Here's a picture posted by Thor of a property marked Erfurt (date hasn't survived the archive):

http://members.rennlist.com/lugerman/TDDErfurt3.jpg

In another post there is a comment about Thor's K-date with several of these dots.

Here you'll find another one, posted by Herb, look at "side stamp"--no indicatin what the gun is:

http://members14.clubphoto.com/herb5...43/guest.phtml

Here's a previous discussion on the topic:

http://forum.lugerforum.com/showthre...=hardness+test

Its true that most of the examples have more than one dot in close proximity.

Here is a picture of the breechblock of my Simson rework of a First Issue Military, it has a dot where one expects to find a firing proof:



Couldn't say what this all means, but it does seem to be a fairly extensive practice with no good explanation.

--Dwight