DDR SS Luger

[RyanE]

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I meant to post this auction and just keep forgetting. A well traveled Luger, SS depot rework then later a DDR rework. The Crown N on the left side of the breech block, frame, and receiver (partially covered by the DVP/KVP star) is from the 1930s rework, the Crown/N on the barrel is from the DDR rework (March 1953). Skull is the Type 1, the type I am most confident is real.

Sold cheap to somebody!

 

[mrfarb]

I’m glad you posted it, I was too. I know who bought it and saw it in hand, it’s a cool Luger.

 

[Absolut]

@mrfarb did the person who purchase it bought it due to the DH?

@RyanE thanks for posting it. Lugerforum members hate you for in open public calling it a SS Luger, but who cares

 

[mrfarb]

@Absolut No George, he collects E German items.

 

[RyanE]

@RyanE thanks for posting it. Lugerforum members hate you for in open public calling it a SS Luger, but who cares

What they really hate is talking about rifles. Don't know why. Then they get upset when they ask the same question over and over and receive the same answer.

 

[weimar_police]

What they really hate is talking about rifles. Don't know why. Then they get upset when they ask the same question over and over and receive the same answer.

Really - no, its just that folks who know rifles seem to think that lugers were treated the same way. I disagree with you.

 

[mrfarb]

When you realize the skull is a depot stamp and not some type of property mark, a lot more clarity comes to the subject.

 

[Absolut]

Really - no, its just that folks who know rifles seem to think that lugers were treated the same way. I disagree with you.

I understand the reluctance from years of weird SS stories, so up to you. Period pictures show SS with Gew98 to K98k rifles reworks. These all have deaths head stamps and commercial firing proofs from the 1936-1943 period. Those were being made because SS did not have access to Army weapons, so they had to make those themselves.
Period pictures also show SS soldiers with Deaths Head stamped Luger holsters. I think we may at least agree that there were Luger pistols in these holsters. They didn't get rifles from the Army at that time, meaning they would also not get Luger pistols at that time. So why then refuse the thought of the SS reworking damaged/broken pistols to functional ones again, as they did with the rifles? Even if you just give this a thought and ignore the Deaths Head stamp, wouldn't you then expect a possible SS repair to - identically to the rifles - have commercial firing proof stamps from exactly the same period as the rifles?