M1900 Swiss Luger Stamping...

Pete Ebbink · 02-04-2004, 12:13 AM

Doc Fisher and I have been having an off-line discussion about M1900 Swiss lugers having the last 2-digits of their serial number stamped on the right side of the magazine button/lever...

Just trying to figure out when this practice was stopped. A local luger authority tells us by pistol # 1000, but I suspect (from photos in several German-text Swiss luger books) that this practice may have disappeared earlier...maybe by # 400 - 500 or so...

Just wondering if others know...

Regards,

Pete... <img border="0" alt="[typing]" title="" src="graemlins/yltype.gif" />

Lugerdoc · 02-04-2004, 09:28 AM

Pete, Your proably close to the right range. I suspect that it happen around the same time that they releive the frame mag well to take the standard PO8 mag with the staked in, rather than screwed in, follower button. TH

Pete Ebbink · 02-05-2004, 11:47 PM

Well I'll be darned...after saying all of this, Doc Fisher reports seeing a nice 1900 early Swiss that was floating around the last Las Vegas show...serial # 861 and it is stamped with "61" on the right side of the magazine release spindle...

...now I don't know what to think...

Regards,

Pete... <img border="0" alt="[typing]" title="" src="graemlins/yltype.gif" />

Lugerdoc · 02-06-2004, 11:28 AM

Pete, It's possible that any luger could have a numbered mag release, if it were numbered to keep the right pices together during a rework. TH

panda · 02-06-2004, 03:42 PM

Pete,
Check your Rutsch book, p. 169: he mentions regular marking up to s/n ~1000.
Cheers, Panda

Pete Ebbink · 02-07-2004, 06:37 PM

Hello Panda,

Yes, you are correct...

V. Bobba's book on Swiss luger on pages 82-83 even shows # 1420...a M1900 Swiss luger with such stampings...so it seems to have gone even higher that # 1000...

Regards,

Pete... <img border="0" alt="[typing]" title="" src="graemlins/yltype.gif" />

02-04-2004, 12:13 AM	#1
Pete Ebbink User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: The USA Posts: 5,919 Thanks: 0 Thanked 6 Times in 4 Posts	M1900 Swiss Luger Stamping... Doc Fisher and I have been having an off-line discussion about M1900 Swiss lugers having the last 2-digits of their serial number stamped on the right side of the magazine button/lever... Just trying to figure out when this practice was stopped. A local luger authority tells us by pistol # 1000, but I suspect (from photos in several German-text Swiss luger books) that this practice may have disappeared earlier...maybe by # 400 - 500 or so... Just wondering if others know... Regards, Pete... <img border="0" alt="[typing]" title="" src="graemlins/yltype.gif" />

02-04-2004, 09:28 AM	#2
Lugerdoc Patron LugerForum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: POB 398 St.Charles,MO. 63302 Posts: 5,089 Thanks: 6 Thanked 736 Times in 483 Posts	Pete, Your proably close to the right range. I suspect that it happen around the same time that they releive the frame mag well to take the standard PO8 mag with the staked in, rather than screwed in, follower button. TH __________________ Tom Heller POB 398 ST.Charles, MO. 63302 Tel 636-447-3006 lugerdoc@charter.net

02-06-2004, 11:28 AM	#4
Lugerdoc Patron LugerForum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: POB 398 St.Charles,MO. 63302 Posts: 5,089 Thanks: 6 Thanked 736 Times in 483 Posts	Pete, It's possible that any luger could have a numbered mag release, if it were numbered to keep the right pices together during a rework. TH __________________ Tom Heller POB 398 ST.Charles, MO. 63302 Tel 636-447-3006 lugerdoc@charter.net

02-05-2004, 11:47 PM	#3
Pete Ebbink User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: The USA Posts: 5,919 Thanks: 0 Thanked 6 Times in 4 Posts	Well I'll be darned...after saying all of this, Doc Fisher reports seeing a nice 1900 early Swiss that was floating around the last Las Vegas show...serial # 861 and it is stamped with "61" on the right side of the magazine release spindle... ...now I don't know what to think... Regards, Pete... <img border="0" alt="[typing]" title="" src="graemlins/yltype.gif" />

02-06-2004, 03:42 PM	#5
panda User Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 148 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Pete, Check your Rutsch book, p. 169: he mentions regular marking up to s/n ~1000. Cheers, Panda

02-07-2004, 06:37 PM	#6
Pete Ebbink User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: The USA Posts: 5,919 Thanks: 0 Thanked 6 Times in 4 Posts	Hello Panda, Yes, you are correct... V. Bobba's book on Swiss luger on pages 82-83 even shows # 1420...a M1900 Swiss luger with such stampings...so it seems to have gone even higher that # 1000... Regards, Pete... <img border="0" alt="[typing]" title="" src="graemlins/yltype.gif" />