EEd,
Thanks very much for the additional pictures.
And Ed, I was writing this while the two of you posted your last messages, so this edit is playing catch-up.
This gun appears to be a standard u-suffix 29DWM which went directly to the German Weapons Office (WaffenAmt) to be inspected and proofed for Police service, rather than to the commercial proof house which serviced DWM. The right receiver, breechblock proof, and barrel marks--particularly the e/WaA66--and the absence of c/N proofs demonstrate this. There is another 29DWM in the Commercial database, sn 4140u, which is marked the same way.
(The absence of any e/6 (or e/33) inspector stamps pretty much eliminate any Simson connection.) I'm not sure what to make of the 6 under the eagle which you percieve. This suggests to me the WAG that the e/6 inspector may have performed part of the final inspection process, either at the Simson factory or at his home office. This does not necessarily imply a Simson "rework" function.
The serial number on the rear toggle pin indicates that something was done concerning this gun after 1932. 29DWM converted to Police use often have numbered toggle pins. This could have been done at a weapons depot. It remains an open question as to when these guns were sold, where they went, and when they were put into service. I believe that Don Maus's Police studies can help sort this out.
Alphabet DWM and 29DWM Commercial Lugers are commonly found without firing pin serial numbers.
The 86 on the rear face of the breechblock is also proper, a number different from the gun's serial number is usually found here on Alphabet DWM and 29DWM. I don't have any records of these numbers being found on other parts.
The presence of K on various parts of this gun is intriguing. Although the witness mark is aligned, it is not a single stroke and so cannot be used as an indicator of anything.
--Dwight
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