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Unread 09-13-2001, 03:25 AM   #1
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Hello all, this is my Luger that I sold to my brother and then bought it back. I've always been into Lugerâ??s, but not enough to research as well as I should have. So, this is a funny slightly mismatched Luger. Has a serial number of 7670 on the frame, which carries over on most parts, safety, toggle, barrel release, then has 5254 on the receiver, which then carries over on one other part I can see. There are 3 swastikas on the right side, the swastika with a 655 below it is a ???


And the magazine has an over stamp of 7670 and what appears to be 7680 and a number 2. The number 2 means the spare magazine? Are over stamps common, it appears original, at least to this magazine,


Thanks, Ed




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Unread 09-13-2001, 01:57 PM   #2
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Congratulations! You are back with us again. But, I would like to know why you parted with it in the first place, brother or not?


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Unread 09-13-2001, 04:12 PM   #3
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Money, I owed him some money and he had traded me a gun years before and that was how I bought the Luger to start with. So... I felt that it was the thing to do, then missed her! So, I started hitting him up to sell it back. He kept telling me no, then he married off his daughter and he needed a bit of money and the circle was complete.


Ed


PS: Does anyone know anything about the 655 on the Luger? I can seee that the Swastika is a proof mark, but the 655 means?




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Unread 09-13-2001, 04:15 PM   #4
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HEY! The next page says...


52. Receiver proof found on SOME Mauser manufactured Dutch contract Lugers.


Cool! So it is or parts of it are Dutch contract???





 
Unread 09-15-2001, 03:30 AM   #5
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655 is the inspector's code number. All Mauser-made arms for a block of time in 1940-41 were inspected by this person or member of his staff. All lugers during that time were inspected by 655. It is referred to as a Waffen Amt for military inspection office, each was given a unique number. Some Dutch contract lugers made in that period may have received German military inspected parts and that is why some may have E/655 stamps. The Dutch had been occupied in this period so the contract deliveries were essentially going to the German military anyway.


Magazines were not originally overstamped in any instance I can think of. There may have been some errors repaired or renumbering after manufacture but it is unlikely this was done at the factory. More likely is this magazine was a military magazine reworked and issued with a police department luger. The "2" is standard German police designation for the extra magazine. Military extras are matked with a "+" sign.





 
 

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