What can you tell me about my Luger?

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Just acquired this one, by no means a Luger expert or enthusiast and curious if anyone can confirm if its a commercial or military unit. Here is what I do know:

- Serial # matches from the upper receiver to the front of the trigger guard (under the barrel) but not the 2 digits on the side
- Mag has a wooden base plate (number does not match serial)
- Chambered in .30 luger not 9mm
- Looks like it was reblued (poorly)
- Was registered in 1939 (so not a WW2 bring back)
- Stamped 1914

Let me know what you think!

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What you have is a military Erfurt 1914 P08 Luger. In original form it should be chambered in 9mm with a 4 inch barrel. Toggle should be stamped ERFURT and bear the crown.

The complete toggle assembly and extractor have been replaced on your Luger, two #'s partial serial should be stamped on both of these parts.

Around 7,000 manufactured in 1914. Serial range for the 1914 Erfurt Luger: 504 to 9448b (yours have the a suffix)
 
Harry Callahan said:
What you have is a military Erfurt 1914 P08 Luger. In original form it should be chambered in 9mm with a 4 inch barrel. Toggle should be stamped ERFURT and bear the crown.

The complete toggle assembly and extractor have been replaced on your Luger, two #'s partial serial should be stamped on both of these parts.

Around 7,000 manufactured in 1914. Serial range for the 1914 Erfurt Luger: 504 to 9448b (yours have the a suffix)
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Wow thanks! Why would it have been rechambered to .30 luger?
 
TheWhole9Yards said:
Wow thanks! Why would it have been rechambered to .30 luger?
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Just a guess but lots of Luger were damaged during the war, some were found on the battlefield deeply covered in mud months after WW1 ended. It also could have been the corrosive ammo that destroyed the barrel, corrosion in the mechanism due to poor storage or lack of cleaning/lube. One things for sure, for some reason it needed a replacement barrel and a complete toggle assembly.

Back in the day .30 Luger or 7.65 Parabellum ammo was plentiful, lots available to private hands compared to 9mm that was a military cartridge in high demand with the military. Same with a needed replacement barrel, 9mm barrels would go on military pistol that came out of the assembly line, very few were available as replacements. That's probably why it was rebarelled to 7.65P, at the same time a complete toggle assembly w/o markings was also fitted to the pistol. The toggle assembly and parts may have been stolen at the factory before it hit the marking stations, that would explain the "naked" toggle and the #'s missing on the extractor.
 
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