Lets debate

[Herb]

Last year I posted my theory of serial numbering. It was that the serial nembers continued unbroken throughout a contract. Example--Mauser recieves a contract for 350,000 Lugers, they cannot possibly procuce that amount in one year therefore the contract numbering continues unbroken until the contract is filled. Suffixes to the numbers also continue with only the chamber dates changing. A member of the forum stated that my reasoning was flawed in that all of the suffexes ie; a thru z were not used. I took that as a challenge and since that time I have haunted the weapons sellers sites, and auction sites such a gunbroker, auctionarms and others to include Ebay where a lot of magazines are sold. Finally I have personally verified that every letter in the alphabet was used during the production of Lugers. Many of these were FXO/122 magazines with the E/37 proof and the Mauser E/63 proof, while others carried no proof at all, therefore I cannot difinitely state that any single manufacturer used every one of the alphabet suffixes. The last one, the 'Z' suffix is a Mauser mag #2332 with an E/63 proof. Therefore, assuming that a single maker, lets say Mauser, recieved a contract for 300,000 Lugers, they would begin production with #1 and then begin the suffixes at 10,000 with #1a then 10,000 later with #1b and so on until the entire contract was fulfilled changing only the year of manufacture, changing the chamber stamping to reflect the new year but not the serial number range, until the entire contract was finished. In my opinion only the year stamping changed, not the serial number sequence based upon my research. I welcome your comments.