Can someone please help me out with a bit of information on my Luger? I believe it is what is called a Commercial model, and built in the early twenties, but I don't know. I can't find any serial number lists anywhere, so I thought I would try you fine folks. According to Hallock and van de Kant, Inspector '655' appeared around serial number 2611w and continued to inspect 42 Code Lugers until the end of. Case and will also be accompanied by an historical writeup outlining the information above as well as a CD containing all of the photos of the Revolver in this listing. Jul 20, 2010 I can't be sure from the picture, but it looks like there is a suffix letter below the number on the grip frame, in which case the gun would not be an early. IMO The problem with the markings on this luger are the 'DWM' with 41 on the barrel. The WWII period lugers would not have the DWM on them. Looking closely at the wonderful matching '2507' serial number is an 'i' block stamp, each block representing 9999 pistols. I do not recall any WWII German.

All?) CZ's have the year stamped on them, if that is what you are trying to figure out. I have CZ27 #567855 with the year 47 stamped on the frame, left side just ahead of the slide release tab. These pistols are generally finished to a far higher level than normal. Look also for 'MADE IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA' (in English) just ahead of the year stamp which probably indicates is was produced for export into the US (by the Thalson Co.). My CZ24 has the date stamped on both sides of the frame (26). Canon Ir 2420 Driver Free Download For Windows 7 64 Bit here. The CZ27 is a beautiful pistol but I like the CZ24 more, I have a thing about locked-breech.380 pistols and their long, sweet recoil.

Something interesting is to remove the slide and sideplate and watch how the trigger components work. In the link referred to above the seller says that the trigger won't return to the forward positon by itself, with the sideplate removed you can see that there is a small spring on the far right that must be missing. That's an interesting serial number. From 1920 to late in 1942 US Army officers had a letter prefix of 'O-' (the capital letter 'o' and a dash) at the beginning of their service numbers.

(Enlisted men used the letter 'R-' to mean 'Regular Army.' ) From 1942 point on officers prefixed their serial numbers with a leading zero, but the service number format changed to be groups of three letters, '01 234 567' or '010 234 567' for example. Your major probably joined the army in the Twenties, because those early serial numbers were strictly sequential, so he was soldier 1,167,612 to be enrolled since the addition of the letter prefix, and the army got up to just under 7,000,000 before switching to the newer system in 1942. What a neat detail!

Roger, thank you for the additional information. Cims Drug Book India Free Download Pdf. I am intertested in learning more about how the pistol came to be inscribed with the service member's identification, and anything I can learn about him! Can date of manufacture be acertained by the pistol's serial number? I have a highly knowledgeable Czech friend running it by forums in the Czech Republic and welcome help from anyone who reads this thread!