Small Luger?

[Jim K]

Just FWIW, Dr. Ingr. August Weiss was the lead production engineer for DWM/Mauser for the Luger pistol. Probably no one, except maybe Georg Luger, knew more than he about how the guns were made and how they worked. Dr. Weiss authenticated the .380 ACP caliber "Baby Luger" that Datig turned up, removing all doubt as to its originality.

Jim

[MagicMaker]

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This is a wee bit late (two years), but I'd like to add some information to this and the following comment (from Jim K, dated 05-27-2009 07:24 PM [#9] ). I came upon this correspondence after Googling my father's name to see if he was mentioned as a gun collector. It came up with some very interesting hits--to which RayP can attest. Dad was, indeed, a gun collector of some renown. His greatest claim to fame was being the original collector to discover the location, and obtain, with all the variously-necessary provenance (including correspondence with the actual maker in Germany), the legendary "BABY LUGER"! A feature article on him and the Baby Luger was run in the "Shooting Times" sometime in the 80's (possibly the late 70's), a copy of which I have, but which is packed away in a trunk for safekeeping. During his hey-day as a collector, he owned both the Baby Luger and its counterpart, the Giant Luger--though from my understanding there was less excitement over the Giant Luger. (I saw a picture of a gun--I think in this website somewhere--of what appeared to me to look like what I remember the Giant Luger looked like; a very long barrel with a detachable stock. If this wasn't the Giant Luger, Father most certainly had one like it or very similar to it.) Carl F. Wilson collected Lugers, a hobby ignited from the souvenir Lugers he brought back from Germany during his tour in World War II. At one time during the 1970's, he was internationally known to possess perhaps the world's best (though not the largest) Luger collection.