1941 Mauser Banner Eagle L Police Rig

1941 Mauser Police Luger Rig SOLD

This is a 1941 chamber dated Mauser Banner Pistole-08. The Luger is an extraordinary example of the police models with a sear safety and polished to civilian standards with a 4" (100mm) barrel that is proofed and serial numbered to the gun. Included in this offering is an extra matching magazine, a dated 1941 Police holster, a period belt and a Nazi Police buckle. This Parabellum is 9mm with serial number placement is in the military ("exposed") style. The thumb safety is marked "Gesichert" and extractor "Geladen." This example has all matching numbers. (1316)

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During the Weimar Republic it was delegated to the seventeen states of Germany to operate their own police powers of which Prussia was the most powerful. The weapons of the 1st World War were plentiful and so the armaments of the Polizei included the Parabellum which had proven itself in the great war.

In addition to the organized Lander (State) run police there were quasi-military organizations that undertook police duties and classes with the German Police were frequent. Central organization was needed and the Nazi Party was ready.


This Parabellum is 9mm police gun in a 100mm barrel length with all matching serial numbers to include matching, original grips. Serial number placement is in the military ("exposed") style. The thumb safety is marked "Gesichert" and extractor "Geladen." The barrel is numbered and proofed and matches the frame. These were the guns ordered by the German military police battalions SS ORDNUNGSPOLIZEI whose duties included keeping law and order in the occupied territories.


This is a full rig with a 1918 Imperial Holster with the manufacturers cartouche that has been converted to the police type with the pin and reversed strap for easy access. Included is a period belt and the very rare buckle from the Prussian Justice Ministry. The must have belonged to a magistrate or court room/jailer guard. The holster is in excellent shape with all the stitching intact and the leather flexible and soft.

The serial number appears on the front of the frame, on the left side of the receiver, under the barrel and the last two digits on most small parts. All serials match including the two magazine from two different eras. The firing pin is the One magazine is the wood based style with the serial number and suffix and the other is a police magazine marked with the Eagle L which introduced in 1939. The firing pin has been replaced with the later model fluted variation. Proof marks are well struck and clearly visible.

The holster has the 1941 Date and the Police Acceptance Proof, very rare in itself.

Between 1938 and 1942 the German Police procured commercial proofed Banner Lugers in the "v", "w", "x" and "y" suffix series. Almost all these guns had the sear safety and all bear the National Police accepting stamp consisting of the Nazi Eagle over the letters K, F, C or L. This Banner is an Eagle "L".

When the Nazis came to power in 1933, Hermann Göring, then Prussian minister of the interior, detached the political and espionage units from the regular Prussian police, filled their ranks with thousands of Nazis, and, on April 26, 1933, reorganized them under his personal command as the Gestpo.

Simultaneously, Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, the Nazi paramilitary corps, together with his aide Reinhardt Heydrich, similarly reorganized the police of Bavaria and the remaining German states. Himmler was given command over Göring’s Gestapo in April 1934 and on June 17, 1936, was made German chief of police with the title of Reichsführer.

Nominally under the Ministry of the Interior, Germany’s police forces now were unified under Himmler as head of both the SS and the Gestapo.


The holster has a loading tool and what appears to be the original magazine with a wood base that was issued and serial numbered to the 1916 weapon. We cannot find much information on the Prussian Justice Ministry buckle shown lower left. It appears to have or had an olive drab color and may have been polished by the wearer. It is a Prussian adler (eagle) with the swastika on its chest with the sword and arrows. A very unique find. If you have any information please send it along to josef@phoenixinvestmentarms.com



Note what appears to be a hole drilled in the rear of the holster and above another hole over the trigger. From what we have learned by antidotal information is that these were to permit a wire with a seal to be passed through the holster within the gun and sealed. This was done by guards or magistrates that carried the weapon more for authority than use. The seal permitted the gun to be hung in the station when off duty and not subjected to loading and unload every shift.

This is a late war Police buckle made of aluminum and imprinted with the "Gott mit uns" (God with Us) and fastened with tabs through the pebbled buckle.

Showing minimal wear and super clean inside and out this captured piece was well cared for over the past 67 years. The barrel is still shiny and crisp making this a collector grade gun. It is entirely subjective to give any Luger a rating of excellent or fine, just as it is to declare it xx% blued or strawed. Few Lugers are out of the box new and these are premium priced. Bluing percentages is like Beauty, in the eye of the beholder. We strive to provide pictures so you can judge for yourself if the gun meets your criteria. If you need another picture to making your buying decision email us your request.

The Schutzmannschaft was first used to describe the urban constabularies that were merged in 1920 into the Order Police (Ordnungspolizei) or ORPO. Translated as "order police", Ordnungspolizei referred to uniformed police units formed by an act of the German Interior Ministry in the summer of 1936. The act decreed that the regular German police forces were to be absorbed into the SS, which would then incorporate all local, state, and national level law enforcement agencies.


Sear Safety: During the 1920's it was determined by German authorities that one could remove the side plate with the gun loaded, thereby exposing the sear, and by then pressing on the sear discharge the gun. Patented in July of 1929 by Ludwig Schiwy of Berlin. [The P-08 is designed with the firing mechanism on the side and not behind or on top as most automatic pistols.] The Sear Safety consist of a spring bar riveted to the top left side of the receiver. (Seen over the sear bar lever). This bar has a vertical pin which is directly over a hole drilled in the sear bar assembly which when the side plate is removed falls into place preventing the sear bar from moving. Therefore you can remove the side plate while loaded (never recommended) and the sear safety should save you from an accidental discharge. The small bar on the left side of the receiver that appears to rest on the side plate and is most known by the round dome fastening rivet that appears over the safety bar identifies the sear safety.

The underside of the barrel has both the serial number and gauge markings while matching the serial number of the frame. The later magazine has an Eagle L (introduced in 1939) and the R Number I to indicate the first magazine. The second magazine appears to be the one issued in 1916 with the serial number and the suffix in the silver casing. This gun really tells its story of travel.

The Mauser Banner or Logo was used on civilian purchase weapons and these guns were made up as the anticipated conversion to the P-38 was supposed to be underway. As police contracts came in they were issued "off-the-shelf" to fulfill the contracts.

Here are the two Haenel-Schmeisser extruded matching magazine both Eagle L proofed along with the loading tool Eagle L.

This rig consist of an all matching 1941 Mauser Banner, two matching Haenel-Schmeisser magazines, a 1941 Police dated holster, a proofed loading tool and a period belt with Police buckle.

The police were divided into the Ordnungspolizei (Orpo or regular police) and the Sicherheitspolizei (Sipo or security police). The Orpo assumed duties of regular uniformed law enforcement while the Sipo consisted of the secret state police Geheime Staatspolizei or Gestapo and criminal investigation police Kriminalpolizei or Kripo.

The Gestapo was a corps of professional detectives involved in political police duties and the task of the Kriminalpolizei was fighting crime. On September 1939, the Sipo was combined with the secret service of the SS Sicherheitsdienst (SD) into the Main Office for Security of the Reich the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA). RSHA symbolize the narrow connection between SS (party organization) and police (state organization).


This picture shows the gun in full recoil with the civilian acceptance stamp on the breach block and the last two digits of the serial number inscribed on the rear main axel toggle pin in accordance with the the German Heeres-Verordnungsblatt Publication by the Reichswehrministerium in Berlin on March 17, 1932 the rear connecting pin was ordered to be marked with the last two numbers of the serial number.



Here you can see the extractor marked GELADEN and the thumb safety "GESICHERT (thumb down is safe. The Luger has also the stock lug, short sear and walnut grips.

This is one of best 1941 Banner police that you can find. A complete rig with all Eagle L proofed accessories. Any question to josef@phoenixinvestmentarms.com

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