1920 Commercial Lugers

That's part of what confuses me about this pistol.

Clearly, it's a rework of some type. It's a 7.65, has C/N proofs on otherwise un-numbered parts, is very flat and square with no sign that it has ever seen a buffing wheel, yet tiny blue filled pitting shows that this pistol has been refinished and in a manner that looks original. The strawing is about 60%, but the pistol has clearly been hot dipped after a sanding to a standard military blue finish.

And there is that sear safety drilling.

This wasn't an expensive pistol by any means and I bought it at a price that was cheap even for a shooter. Of course, 7.65 gets the kiss of death price on shooters.

It's a neat little pistol. It shows evidence of firing a lot of corrosive ammo in the rough but not pitted bore.


It's my representative 7.65 Luger. Representing anything other than 30 Luger, I don't know.


It's really a neat little pistol that I didn't pay much for. It IS as nice as some other pistols I have that I paid 6 times the price for.


Mike