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Daltondbl

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Looking at maybe buying this Luger, looks good to me except maybe the 5 on the cover (looks different than other numbers stamped). Anything y’all see wrong with it? It’s a byf 41

Thanks
 

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Looking at maybe buying this Luger, looks good to me except maybe the 5 on the cover (looks different than other numbers stamped). Anything y’all see wrong with it? It’s a byf 41

Thanks

Numbers looks alright to me. Just a harder strike on the 5 that you're talking about.
 
Get a picture of the backside of the side plate. Mauser started stamping the first 2 of the serial+1 on the inside sometime around 1938-39. In your case it should have a 82 stamped inside.
 
It ends here pretty soon, I’m gonna try to pick it up if the price doesn’t shoot way up. Has a 3 day return policy if anything is wrong. As long as that number looks good. If I win it I’ll get it and start taking it apart for closer looks
 
I had this one on my watch list. The two matched mags are going to make it go WAY up. These BYF 41s often sell with walnut grips then magically re appear as a black widow with 6k asking price.
 
Get a picture of the backside of the side plate. Mauser started stamping the first 2 of the serial+1 on the inside sometime around 1938-39. In your case it should have a 82 stamped inside.

Hmm, I didn't know this. I looked at my own byf 41 and sure enough, there was a 15 (serial number starts with 14). Do you know the reasoning behind this?
 

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Did you by any chance win this? This sold for one matched mag price. I was really surprised.
 
Did you by any chance win this? This sold for one matched mag price. I was really surprised.

I did not, I took it up to 2400 and kept getting beat by an auto bid and then someone else joined in and took it the rest of the way. Not sure if the guy with auto bid won or the other guy
 
I did not, I took it up to 2400 and kept getting beat by an auto bid and then someone else joined in and took it the rest of the way. Not sure if the guy with auto bid won or the other guy

Did you see the end price? Geez, how much extra will having an extra matching mag bring up the price of a Luger!?

I wonder if it was also due to the fact that the "T" block would have been just about the last block to number their mags before they went to fxo magazines. They began doing that I believe in the "U" block.
 
Did you see the end price? Geez, how much extra will having an extra matching mag bring up the price of a Luger!?

I wonder if it was also due to the fact that the "T" block would have been just about the last block to number their mags before they went to fxo magazines. They began doing that I believe in the "U" block.

The "U" block still had numbered mags.
 

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