1914 Erfurt L.A. 88 unit marking

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Rich, IMHO your pistol was made toward the end of WW1 when Erfurt arsenal was using up some LPO8 receivers on their production of normal production PO8s (9x100mm barrels). It may have gone directly into police service at the end of WW1 and the sear safety was added in around 1933. I doubt that this one ever saw service on an observation balloon. Lugerdoc