Siamese Artillery

Big Norm · 09-24-2005, 05:57 PM

George,
is your barrel numbered to the gun? Since my barrel is unnumbered and not proofed, I wonder if the barrels were replaced? I keep thinking of the Dutch West Indies Lugers that the climate messed up and the fact that most of them were rebarreled and dated as to when they were rebarreled. My bore looks very good.

I'll put your guns serial number on my watch list of mags that I keep an eye out for. So far I have gun numbers 3519V and 3540V and have to look for magazine number 3541V (your mag matches) and stock number 3519V (my stock matches). With the small number of Siamese artilleries out there we might have have a slim chance of finding something. Maybe we could contact Sam Buscemi. He had a Siamese artillery for sale a few months ago. Maybe he still has it.

Mauro,
it is too bad that I don't know who has the gun in your book. If that person was receptive to working out a deal, then we could add him to our search list. John Walters book "The Luger Book" page 246, says that Odin sold only 62 Siamese artillery Lugers in the serial range of 3453 and 3551.

A Mr J.D. Rousseau, who is a big Luger collector in Alaska and a friend of Jan Stills and who has many Lugers pictured in Jans "Third Reich Lugers" book, told me that the holsters for these guns had pretty well rotted away and were disposed of. So there isn't any sense on looking for them.
Big Norm

09-24-2005, 05:57 PM	#4
Big Norm RIP Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: SE Michigan Posts: 1,864 Thanks: 1 Thanked 6 Times in 5 Posts	George, is your barrel numbered to the gun? Since my barrel is unnumbered and not proofed, I wonder if the barrels were replaced? I keep thinking of the Dutch West Indies Lugers that the climate messed up and the fact that most of them were rebarreled and dated as to when they were rebarreled. My bore looks very good. I'll put your guns serial number on my watch list of mags that I keep an eye out for. So far I have gun numbers 3519V and 3540V and have to look for magazine number 3541V (your mag matches) and stock number 3519V (my stock matches). With the small number of Siamese artilleries out there we might have have a slim chance of finding something. Maybe we could contact Sam Buscemi. He had a Siamese artillery for sale a few months ago. Maybe he still has it. Mauro, it is too bad that I don't know who has the gun in your book. If that person was receptive to working out a deal, then we could add him to our search list. John Walters book "The Luger Book" page 246, says that Odin sold only 62 Siamese artillery Lugers in the serial range of 3453 and 3551. A Mr J.D. Rousseau, who is a big Luger collector in Alaska and a friend of Jan Stills and who has many Lugers pictured in Jans "Third Reich Lugers" book, told me that the holsters for these guns had pretty well rotted away and were disposed of. So there isn't any sense on looking for them. Big Norm