Earliest surviving Test Luger (?)

ithacaartist · 04-30-2023, 02:50 AM

I just watched the latest Legacy Collectibles YouTube presentation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8FA5MZ_oi4

This gun was "all over the forums," according to Tom, ten years ago, although I do not remember the thread here. He lays out a very interesting case. But not knowing what was decided in the historian/collectors' community, I have a question that was not addressed in the YouTube:

If the gun was one of two sent from existing stock in the U.S. by Hans Tauscher,, why is its mag numbered to the gun? Commercial Lugers' mags weren't numbered, right? Why would this have been an exception?

04-30-2023, 02:50 AM	#1
ithacaartist Twice a Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Atop the highest hill in Schuyler County NY Posts: 3,347 Thanks: 7,285 Thanked 2,579 Times in 1,366 Posts	Earliest surviving Test Luger (?) I just watched the latest Legacy Collectibles YouTube presentation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8FA5MZ_oi4 This gun was "all over the forums," according to Tom, ten years ago, although I do not remember the thread here. He lays out a very interesting case. But not knowing what was decided in the historian/collectors' community, I have a question that was not addressed in the YouTube: If the gun was one of two sent from existing stock in the U.S. by Hans Tauscher,, why is its mag numbered to the gun? Commercial Lugers' mags weren't numbered, right? Why would this have been an exception? __________________ "... Liberty is the seed and soil, the air and light, the dew and rain of progress, love and joy."-- Robert Greene Ingersoll 1894