WTK: 1914 1920 Luger with a lined out number

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md66948

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About 10 years ago my youngest son wanted some WWI/WWII pistols for his collection. I found a Double Stamped Luger and 43 P38 for him. They were in an Estate sale and I picked them up at a very reasonable price. They did not have any bring back papers for these two pistols. The daughter did tell me that her dad brought them home from WWII.

The Luger is marked 1914 1920 with a Circle S on the barrel frame. I think the S was done by Simpson when it was struck with the 1920.

What I want to know is why there is a 909 with a line through it on the back of his Luger? Could this have been a previous Unit Marking?

My son bought the Liberator at an auction.

















 
I got this reply on another forum. It is what I thought it was: "Any time you see a lined out number on a firearm, it is almost always because the number no longer has any relevance for identification, affiliation, issuance or ownership. It may have been a unit, police station, inventory, capture, evidence, rack, or for any other reason which a Luger might get stamped.

Most WWI unit numbers will be an alpha-numeric combination with some form of punctuation. During the inter-war period, a number such as the one your Luger displays could have been for a district, police or paramilitary unit. And that one was number 909 until it got crossed out."
 
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