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I have had this luger for years now and I wanted to know what these numbers were on the handle??? Here are some pictures of this piece that is all numbers matched down to the magazine. The numbers in question are 12/7... Thanks, Mark

German made Pearl Harbor commemorative,,,Banzai Heil!,,maybe 12 company,inf rgt 7,although would normall be marked thusly; 12k.JR7...

Its got me stumped as well...

A few thoughts on this.

Could this be a post WW1 marking ?

Generally Imperial unit marking used "." as the separator.

Weimar military markings generally used "/" as the separator.

Could also be police I suppose.

Richie

Try posting your question on Jan Still's site. I'm sure you'll get your answer there.
http://luger.gunboards.com/

Weimar unit marks are marked in this style if so it's incomplete.

The 12/7 is a provisional mark, or possibly a Stab (staff) mark indicating 12th Company/ 7th Infantry Regiment. More probably a provisional mark since "Staff" pistols don't seem to have been issued in the Reichswehr.

Ron

I would also add that the absense of the 1920 property mark might be due to the fact that this pistol was actively being used in combat against the Poles on the Eastern Frontier around Breslau. And could not be returned to be property marked.

Infanterieführer III: Potsdam
7. Infanterieregiment: Schweidnitz (Stab, 13. Kp. Ausbildungs-Btl)
Oppeln I. Btl (2 Kp in Neisse)
Hirschberg II. Btl (2 Kp in Glatz)
Breslau III. Btl