DWM made luger pistols

The firm DWM explained

- The firm LOEWE und Cie

- The Deutsche Metallpatronenfabrik (DM)

- The Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionsfabriken AG (DWM)

- The Berlin-Karlsruher Industrie-Werke (BKIW)

- The Industrie-Werke Karlsruhe (IWK)

- Hugo BORCHARDT

- Georg LUGER

Evolution of the Borchardt pistol

- The Borchardt pistol

- The Borchardt hold-open device improvement

- The Borchardt improved model of 1909

- The mysteries about the 1909 model

- A patent for a trigger mechanism

From the Borchardt to the Luger pistol

- The roots of the story

- DWM requested that Luger undertake the redesign

- The chronology of Georg Luger's earliest involvement

- The transitional models until the 1898 model

Luger's patents and the issue of fakes

- The list of the German patents granted to Georg Luger

- The difficulty of unmasking some of the very well made fakes

- How fakers are helped.

- The "pre-production transitional prototype 1900" US fake

- The fundamental problem in exposing fakers

- It is very difficult to fault their machining and re-finishing

- One of the most interesting Luger patents explained

The DWM commercial production - Part I

- Commercial production 1900-1918 (serial numbers & quantities)

- The Swiss DWM Lugers

- The Dutch Lugers

- The Bulgarian Lugers

The DWM commercial production - part II

- The Russian Lugers

- The Portuguese Lugers

- The Bolivian Lugers

- The Brasilian Lugers

- The Mexican Lugers

- The French commercial Lugers

DWM German Military production

- Production figures, by models and periods

- Naval Lugers

- Standard military Lugers

- Lugers long (Artillery model)

Markings on the DWM Luger

- Commercial and military proof marks

- Unit markings

- Recall of the post WWI German History

- The death's head marking

Post WW I DWM production

- The law of 1920 - the 1920 marking explained

- Estimated production and serial blocks

- The weapons supply office ( Waffen-Amt )

- The specific markings of the period

- The foreign commercial market - Stoeger import

- The new commercial serial range with a suffix letter

- The Commercial production from 1921 to 1928 (figures)

- Abercrombie & Fitch Lugers

- The Finnish Lugers

Transitional period before transfer to Mauser

- The armament of the German State Polices

- On January 30, 1933 Hitler was appointed Chancellor

- Refurbished Lugers

- The Naval Lugers markings

- Production of the transitional period 1929-1930 (figures)

- The WaA66 acceptance markings

A rare piece of "History"

- The kind of historical piece that makes experts happy

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