Does anyone here have a P210 Legend “First Edition” or other very early P210 Legend? It would have the little circular indentations next to the S and F markings on the frame. This isn’t a WTB thread. I’m curious about how the manual safety on it works, and if it’s different than later Legend pistols. Thanks to anyone who can shed some light…

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There are no indentations at the “F” and the “S” on the German made P210s. Not that I have ever seen, and I had a pretty early Legend. Those indentations are of the original Swiss design, where there’s a detent ball underneath the thumb safety tab that latches onto the “F” and “S” indentations on the frame. This design created that famous arch (frame gouge) going from “F” to “S” that the Swiss gun is known for. The Germans did away with this, when they updated the P210. No part of the thumb safety tab touches the frame. No detent ball, no frame indentations.

^^^I am familiar with the arc. I already had a Swiss P210 before I bought a German one. What you describe is also what I used to think. However, check this out. I also remember the indentations from the original P210 Legend marketing photo, but I didn’t want to offer just that as “evidence”, since I don’t know if SIG Sauer DE had just photographed a prototype/mockup for the original product announcement. What’s funny is I’ve actually seen two different kinds of indentations now on the P210 Legend.

Well now, that’s interesting. I guess they had those indentations early on but then realized, “What the hell, they’re not even needed anymore”. So, off they went. Lol.

^^^That’s what I was thinking (that it was just a cosmetic detail). That seems too goofy though.

Interesting! I wonder if it had the newer style safety with internal detente or not at that point. I double checked my Legion, BC date code (the pictured First Edition is a BB, about a thousand serial #s earlier), and mine is the standard, non-indented frame.

That’s also what I’m wondering. Re: the above, the reason that I figured it wasn’t simply cosmetic is that there are two different indentation types I’ve seen now on the P210 Legend while researching this. The first type is like on the pistol I linked above, where the indentations are two-stage, which makes them look like they have a halo around them. The second type looks just like the old Swiss P210 with two simple hemispherical cavities.

Probably someone will offer a device to put a neat safety lever frame scratch on new P210s.

“Gives your P210 that olde tyme look!”

Wonder if OTD might be able to shed some light on this.

I changed the title to get his attention…

That’s good. But I thought anything P210 would have sent a signal to alert him. You know, kind of like the Bat-Signal. Lol.

As far as I know, the manual safety mechanism is the same on all P210 models. On the "Legend", a firing pin safety based on the J.-P.Sauer design was newly introduced when production start in German. However, this has no effect on the operation of the safety lever.

The indentation next to the “S” on the frame is only found on early "Legend" pistols from the first production series. It was likely deemed unnecessary and abandoned.

Thanks, OTD

Q, it looks like you were right all along…