P 04 mag- Army marked or fake?

[gunnertwo]

Tough to give an opinion as the pics of the mag bottom are not clear. Body does look too new.

G2

[Patrick Sweeney]

I suspect that scanning and posting photos from the book would fall under the "fair use" aspect of copyright protection. If you want to cross the t's and dot the i's, then cite the book title, author's name and page number, and you're covered.

[D P McN]

Thanks to you both for your thoughts.
G2, please see a couple more pictures I took under a reading lamp that may be an improvement for diagnosis, but I suffer from cheap phone. I'm really curious about the "two tone" finish appearance of the mag. The rear half of the mag looks to me to be stainless steel (80% sure) while the front half is nickeled. I vaguely remember some all-stainless Luger mags were made by a firm called Haenel, but they were commercial and I believe were made in the inter-war period. All the WW1 mags I know of were all-nickeled.
Mr. Sweeney, I'm sure for all practical purposes you're right. The book with the picture of the Pioneers with P 04s is "The Navy Luger" by Joachim Gortz and John Walter. I think it's long out of print. At any rate, I'll need to dig it out and take a picture of that page and think it over.