![]() ![]() war time mass/fast production guns with matched numbers still don't make complete sense to me. Now I'm seeing that it's increasingly possible that there were almost enough numbers to uniquely number every Luger coming off of the various assembly lines. Have any guns been seen with more than a single letter. But the multiple letters brings up another thought. I'm assuming this is for clarity's sake - showing what slightly different versions of each character will look like. The chart Alpo reproduces shows some letters multiple times. and our prospective number range is steadily increasing. And then add in the several distinct manufacturers. so we have a prospective hit range of ~270k. In respect (including) the little letter character - 1 in 270,000.Īhh! Good point about the "no letter" value. Is anyone aware whether or not any two Lugers have ever been seen with the exact same 2 and 4 digit numbers between them? So the chances of this should be: without respect to the extra letter character - 1 in 1000. ![]() and ~150 with the same numbers (but different letters). your 270,000 scheme would suggest that there might have been manufactured at least ~6 Lugers with the exact same letter/number combination. Can you address my question about whether or not a number on a gun is unique to the gun (that is within the above identified 270,000 prospective number range), or if the numbers instead signified any maker/team/shop/factory ID value? If it's unique to the gun and we can guess that at least 1.5 million pieces were manufactured. there's probably an additional German-specific letter not shown in the chart. Is it a known/accepted observation that there are a lot of Lugers around with the same four and two digit numbers?Īhh! This adds quite a bit of extended range to the 4 digit scheme! You're saying this allows 270,000 unique combos but you're only showing 26 letters. perhaps the product of smaller shops/factories that could better afford the time (the war time luxury) to produce such numerically matched, numerically perfect examples. guns with completely matched number sets should seem a peculiar curio. it seems possible/likely that completed Lugers would be rolling out of the gunsmith shops/factories as new with all "mis-matched numbers" representing the multiple persons and teams that went into the final (precise jigsaw-puzzle like) assembly. Speculating on the likely mass production environment of these Lugers. does it make sense that every part of the gun would be manufactured by the exact same individual - as in the case of a gun with all matched numbers? Wouldn't Axis gunsmith shops/factories have figured out the magic of industrial scale specialization/division of labor such that one man or team specialized in barrels and was particularly tooled for this, while another person/team was particularly tooled and specialized in ejector/firing-pin assemblies, etc? Rather than all of these persons/teams using the same number, wouldn't it make the most sense (from a quality control point at least) for each such person/team to use their own unique number? If these numbers then refer to the maker's ID rather than the gun's own ID. this is starting to make better sense (this leads to the conclusion that there can potentially be many guns with the same number). If rather than the numbers being unique to one particular gun, the numbers instead represent one particular gunsmith, or one particular gunsmith team, or one one particular gunsmith shop/factory. or there are a lot of Lugers around with the same identical numbers. either there are a lot of Lugers around with higher than 4 digit numbers. #LUGER P08 SERIAL NUMBERS PLUS#I've never seen a Luger showing more than a four digit number, plus I've never heard of two Lugers with the same number. Lugers, and if each Luger were uniquely numbered, this would require a 7 digit number. If we make the conservative guess that only 10% of this force were issued such serial numbered I've read online that the German and Axis powers fielded 15,000,000 soldiers in WWII. ![]() #LUGER P08 SERIAL NUMBERS FULL#if we use the full set, this allows for 10,000 unique numbers. I've never seen a Luger with a number larger than 4 digits. but thinking about this deeper leaves me a bit perplexed. I'd always assumed that every Luger had it's own unique number. ![]()
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