A quick question about productuon numbers...

[ithacaartist]

How many '06 American Eagles were produced?

[Dwight Gruber]

Less than 43,965. That is, by serial number, the number of pistols in the range from the introduction of the New Model Parabellum to the last of the reports of that type. More than 776, the number of New Model American Eagles reported in the commercial database. There are 1,396 reports of models in this range other than AE. There are 1,744 entries whose type is not reported, but whose other data suggest a significant portion may be American Eagles.

Actual production records are not to be found. There is insufficient data for statistically valid extrapolation. Estimating (guessing!) the number of the remaining pistols which might be American Eagles is a hopeless and meaningless exercise.

--Dwight

[Stucki]

Originally Posted by Dwight Gruber

Less than 43,965. That is, by serial number, the number of pistols in the range from the introduction of the New Model Parabellum to the last of the reports of that type. More than 776, the number of New Model American Eagles reported in the commercial database. There are 1,396 reports of models in this range other than AE. There are 1,744 entries whose type is not reported, but whose other data suggest a significant portion may be American Eagles.

as a statistic guess I would say:
3916 or 9% of this model were reported - for a statistic guess that is enough. If you take these 3916 as 100%, then 766 AE Lugers are roughly 20%, 1396 non AE Lugers 36% and 1744 u/i Lugers 44%. Therefore I would suppose there were between 20% and 64% AE Lugers, which means about 8700 to 28100 pistols.

Alexander