Murray,
Shattuck here in the USA has had several of these...claimed to be "presentation pieces"...some for sale. In a past email to me, Ralph also stated these were "salesman factory samples" when I asked about one that was for sale on Gun Borker. A couple of such of those are photo'd in some of the old luger books.
I think they are just "assembled" guns with various parts.
The prototypes (aka hybrids) from Switzerland from the old Bern factory and museum have a "V-x" serial number added. Shattuck's pieces do not if I recall correctly.
Doug Smith had one of the Swiss prototypes number V-12 at the last SOS show in KY. As he did a disassembly for me, Ron Wood, and others, we discovered the gun was actually a M1899 prototype No. 22 which had a M1929 toggle train added and the V-12 number assigned.
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