SamDunford
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1917 Erfurt military rig i picked up yesterday
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SamDunford
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something “karlsruhe” under the flap [emoji106] thanks man
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Congrats, nice looking rig, is it an early letter block 1917? I think later in the year the die used for the crown at Erfurt on the toggle started showing up with a missing section (called the broken die block I think). The holster is probably L. Ritgen above the Karrlsruhe, that was the typical Imperial marking for this maker. Always nice to score a high condition imperial rig, if they are easy to remove check is the grips to see if they are numbered and proofed, Erfurt was getting pretty hit or miss by 1917 with marking the grips.
Thanks,
Nick
Thanks,
Nick
SamDunford
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Hey Chris actually i grabbed it at a local gun show here in mass saturday morning. I had crazy luck at that show. rivet grip k98 bayonet, this luger, original ZF4... list goes on
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1917 Erfurt
It's funny how shows go...sometimes I'll go on a huge run of nothing, then 1 show makes up for all of it.... I imagine you guys have a lot more stuff back there on the east coast though.... Nice pistol!
It's funny how shows go...sometimes I'll go on a huge run of nothing, then 1 show makes up for all of it.... I imagine you guys have a lot more stuff back there on the east coast though.... Nice pistol!
SamDunford
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Hey Tom,
that was the big E in springfield, i always like that show. Just picked up another luger 2 weeks ago also locally. been a good month collecting !
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that was the big E in springfield, i always like that show. Just picked up another luger 2 weeks ago also locally. been a good month collecting !
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Kammerjaeger
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I’ve always loved the Erfurt Lugers. In an ironic, and kind of weird way, their production during WWI sort of mirrored K98k production during WWII. What I mean by that is this, I’ve always understood that Erfurt began to take cosmetic, perhaps other, shortcuts during WWI production, analogous to a degree with our own resultant Kriegsmodell production.
KJ
KJ
Warrior1354
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Erfurt is probably my favorite Imperial era manufacturer it's one of the things I primarily collect. Maybe it's because they just feel so Prussian I don't know. Partly why I like that Arsenal so much is mainly because of how much stuff they produced it really is incredible. But if you want to Compare Quality to this Arsenal compared to dwm that's like comparing a Mercedes to a Volkswagen!
