"Garage sale" Luger question

Walt NW · 05-10-2005, 10:59 AM

reference my post from last month on my "Garage sale" Luger.
This is a rebuild of a 1916 Navy with apparent replacement of the toggle train, rear sight and barrel. Toggle has the correct DMW marking and sight shows the original double digit serial crossed out and replaced with the frames correct last two numbers. 4" replacement barrel carries the correct Navy sight but is completely blank, Assuming the guy I bought it from was correct in that his father picked it up in France in the '50's and never had the gun worked on, could the barrel, without markings, have been part of a factory rebuild or would it most certainly have been an individual replacement by a past owner?

Ron Smith · 05-10-2005, 11:27 AM

Walt,
Most likely a post war replacement. The barrel , even if armorer's replacement, should have some type of marking. An arsenal refurb would have been re-numbered and marked also.

Ron

Walt NW · 05-10-2005, 06:25 PM

Thanks Ron,
Thought so, and with that I'll dub it simply as nice a 'shooter' as I've seen in a long time and just hang her on the wall where she looks darned good among her 'collectible' cousins.

05-10-2005, 10:59 AM	#1
Walt NW User Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: New Caney, Texas Posts: 90 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	"Garage sale" Luger question reference my post from last month on my "Garage sale" Luger. This is a rebuild of a 1916 Navy with apparent replacement of the toggle train, rear sight and barrel. Toggle has the correct DMW marking and sight shows the original double digit serial crossed out and replaced with the frames correct last two numbers. 4" replacement barrel carries the correct Navy sight but is completely blank, Assuming the guy I bought it from was correct in that his father picked it up in France in the '50's and never had the gun worked on, could the barrel, without markings, have been part of a factory rebuild or would it most certainly have been an individual replacement by a past owner?

05-10-2005, 11:27 AM	#2
Ron Smith User Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Orygun Posts: 4,243 Thanks: 118 Thanked 245 Times in 150 Posts	Walt, Most likely a post war replacement. The barrel , even if armorer's replacement, should have some type of marking. An arsenal refurb would have been re-numbered and marked also. Ron __________________ I Still Need DWM side plate #49... if anyone runs across a nice one. What ~Rudyard Kipling~ said...

05-10-2005, 06:25 PM	#3
Walt NW User Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: New Caney, Texas Posts: 90 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Thanks Ron, Thought so, and with that I'll dub it simply as nice a 'shooter' as I've seen in a long time and just hang her on the wall where she looks darned good among her 'collectible' cousins.