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1080
$4,312.50

*DWM ARTILLERY LUGER WITH HOLSTER, SHOULDER STOCK, SNAIL DRUM MAGAZINE WITH COVER AND LOADING TOOL. SN 1370e. Cal. 9mm. Pistol has standard artillery configuration, all numbers match. 8″ Barrel is fitted with tangent rear sight with elevation screw, front sight does not have windage adjustment. Receiver has 1917 date, and all correct numbers and proofs. Frame is all matching except for unnumbered right grip, and correct wood-bottomed tinned magazine which has undecipherable 4 digit number. Artillery board type shoulder stock has nice fiddle figure, and takedown iron is numbered “72”. Black leather holster is stamped “Perina & Co Dresden” with 1917 date. Cleaning rod is in pocket. Snail drum magazine with lacquered tin cover and machine gun adapter sleeve is numbered “357547” on top and bottom. Tin cover is unnumbered. Loading tool is numbered “7153” with “53” on lever and release button. CONDITION: Very good, pistol retaining 80% of its orig blue, turning brown, and silvered on high edges. Strawed parts have a considerable amount of color, except safety which is mostly gray-brown. Ejector and right side of trigger have been cleaned to silver. Bore is fair, rifling strong, but dark and pitted throughout. Holster is good, with some grain lifting and cracking. Shoulder stock has many marks and knocks. Iron has a good deal of orig blue. Mounting straps are missing. Takedown toggle is silver-brown. Snail drum retains most of its orig blue, silvered on high edges and turning brown. Latch and spring are good. Cover retains about 30% lacquer, front portion deeply pitted and cleaned. Loading tool retains most of its lacquer. Magazine latch spring retaining bar has come unsoldered. Latch, bar, and spring are present but need reassembly. A nearly complete WWI rig. 4-41102 MGM131 (3,500-5,500)


Auction: Firearms - Spring 2011
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