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Replacing the open sights isn't cheap, so I always go the route of fitting a period scope. If you need to replace other parts then as already said it's easy as it's a Diana 35!

First one I've seen with a double set trigger. Nice! The lock-up mechanism on the Original V is so smooth.

Diana 75 is fully recoilless and far younger than the LG55 which isn't recoilless. With an LG55 you need to be careful with the piston seal, as the original synthetic washers crumble to dust. If the gun is then fired with no washer, the fixing screw for the seal gets hammered and finding a...

I have 3 guns that are from the 1920-30s including a Tell model 41, an unbranded Tell model 52, and a beautiful unbranded junior Millita-style gun that's probably a Langenhan. German guns made after WW1 were often no-names because German-made was not a good selling point after the war. This can...

Not seen a walnut-stocked 45 before, but with the checkering on the pistol grip the Deluxe tag would certainly fit. I have a regular beech-stocked Diana 45 from Aug.1980

Don't even leave them unattended with one!

1st January 1970 was the introduction of the Freimark. I believe that any German-made gun over the 7.5J muzzle energy (so not earning the Freimark) had to have a serial number after this date.

Lux isn't referring to the model: there was no Lux version of the Diana 23! Might have been stamped by the dealer. If there is no 2 digit year stamped into the heel of the butt, then I would date it as early 60's. Sometime after 1958, Diana seem to have stopped stamping the year into that spot...

That's the Mk.II with the rounded foreend and the screws outside of the "checkered" area, so would be 1984-85ish. You can see the difference to my Mk.1. The barrel of the S is also a greater diameter than the standard model.