The P.08 German Luger
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The following is extracted from http://lugerlp08.free.fr/fsite03.htm (Appunti sulle Luger ArtiglieriaErfurt produced the LP08 only in the year 1914, DWM production continued up to ... the 1920’s, several different importers commercialised the sale of Luger ..) on double dating of 1914 German LP08 9mm Lugers:

Following Army acceptance, the production of the LP08 was assigned to DWM, and also to the Royal Arsenal of Erfurt. Erfurt produced the LP08 only in the year 1914, DWM production continued up to the end of the First World War. When World War One was over, the Treaty of Versailles placed the LP08 among the weapons that were prohibited for manufacture and issue. Many of them were unfortunately destroyed. Some were reworked by an arsenal and had the barrel shortened and many others were hidden away. The LP08 only remained in service with the Navy.

With the intent to distinguish government-owned weapons from those that were contraband or clandestine, on August 7, 1920, an order was issued by the Reichstag, known as "law for disarmament of the people," that forced all persons to turn in all contraband war weapons obtained from the battlefields during the conflict and also during the revolutionary movements that followed the war. The directive "Inspektion der Infanterie Nr. 657.T 20 J2s (W.2)" introduced perhaps a most unique circumstance in history, in that the year “1920” was stamped on government-issued weapons as evidence of state ownership. This activity created the variation known as the Luger “double date.” These pistols are characterised by the double date over the chamber. Actually the state property mark of “1920” was stamped above the manufacture year chamber date. There are some LP08s known in this configuration.

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