Info needed on this Luger

[3volv3]

Hi everyone, hope you are all well

Friend of mine want to buy this Luger and I hope someone can please help with information about the marking on the gun:

Thank you

[BlackCat1982]

Pre war P08 made by Mauser. Serial numbers a mixture of 2 and 4 digits. I think this makes it 1936, but Luger experts will fire up shortly.

[emileverbunt]

Ik looks to be an East German reissue. Looking at the grip plates.

Cheers,
Emile

[Carfin LEWYS]

Hi gentlemen,

Please can you take a photo of the front with the SN under the barrel.
Best regards from Alsace , France.
Carfin.

[War Medals]

Luger is non matching. S/42 is Mauser. Chambers are from 1936 to 1940.Grips should be walnut. These are probably reproductions. Pistol looks to have been refurbished by the blued over rust spots. A good shooter.


John

[BrodieBartfast]

Agreed with the above comments. The grips are East German replacements, as seen on a lot of deact Lugers in the UK.

B.B.

[guns ltd]

Yes I agree with all that was said earlier.
Mismatched, refurbished luger. They make a great shooter.
it appears to have a deact stamp???? Is it Functional????
A lot of these lugers came out of east block countries after the wall came down.
The arms dealers made a Fortune on this stuff as the east was starving for cash...
Just my thoughts...

John

[lithgow]

An East German (DDR) refurbished example post WW2-when the Soviets started to re establish the local security forces in their bit of occupied Germany, they only allowed them to use assorted old captured weapons-the last production line for German Krieghoff P08 Lugers was in the East and was used to refurbish them-parts were force matched to the frame serial number and new barrels fitted as required-the old wood grips were replaced with plastic and new property marks added-Nazi waffenamts were usually defaced, although mostly just the Swastika bits. Some remained in store in the DDR until the collapse of the regime in 1989.