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Simson lugers made at the factory and not refurbed pistols will have two eagle 6's on the bottom of the stock lug.
Simson lugers made at the factory and not refurbed pistols will have two eagle 6's on the bottom of the stock lug.
To report any Simson Lugers - send an email to Simsonlugers@verizon.net
include pictures of the full left, full right, top and any other exterior markings.
Jan Still's 1925 Simson
Jan Still's 1925 Simson
I had the opportunity to be friends with Jan and he allowed me to use his three simson lugers for our book, Simson Lugers (original, I know, but descriptive).
His was the earliest known Simson for many years.
Sn 187
Sn 187
I bought this years after my friend died. His family had kept everything, and eventually it came up for sale on Legacy Collectibles. I know Tom very well, we used to share tables at Allentown, PA collector shows, and he sold it to me :)
Sn 656
Sn 656
This was another friends, and I bought it off of auction, a 1926 is very rare. Approx 600 1925 were dated, while less than 100 1926's were! I used to own Sn 701, and it was not dated, so that tells me that any after Sn 701 were not dated (and this is verified through numerous examples I have held). Also, this one is unit marked!
Simson & Co had been making guns and other items since the latter 1800's, then during WW1 they made rifles, bayonets, etc.
After the war, they, like almost every biz were drastically looking for other means to stay afloat. Meanwhile, the owner and maker of Lugers, DWM was being told they could not make weapons of war by the Allied Commision. Simson & Co was chosen as the company who could make new weapons and refurbish them.
An approx of 12,500 luger pistols were made and an unknown number of rifles.
Specifically, Simson Lugers were made after World War One during the Weimar years in Germany. They were a Jewish firm, so you can imagine after the nazi's came into power that they whacked anyone that was not their 'type'. Simson was forced to sell their company to the gov't and the contract for the lugers and rifles ended, although they still lasted (that sounds like poor English) and they are still in business after WW2 and then the DDR years.
Acceptance and Proof
Acceptance and Proof
Most people call the stamps proofing or proof stamps.
The reality is that each of the stamps are acceptance markings.
Eagle 6, Eagle 33, Eagle 6 (acceptance stamping) and the final on the right is a Proof Eagle.
Over the years, the acceptance changed, as each marking was assigned to a person or group.
Eagle 6's are the personnel / group ASSIGNED to simson & co, so technically NOT a Simson stamping. But the group who accepted each part / gun.
Note the small eagle 6 above, this is believed to be a supervisor check of the pistol.
These acceptance stamps are seen mostly with police examples, but not always.
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