Hello John,
There are no marks inside the side plate. There are one or two small manufacturing process marks inside the frame.
How many such guns exist is a real unknown but what puzzles me, is would there have been any parts left over after WW2 and after the Japs cleaned out the Arsenals.
Gosh, I wish it could talk to me just a little louder!
I wonder what Guus de Vries would have to say. On Page 134 of his book there is comments by the Dutch author Dcibel who suggest that Vickers made some replacement guns for some that were rejected from the contract. If that was the case, they would possibly have no numbers, but would have been numbered and given the Wilhelmina acceptance mark when issued. May be this is one of those Lugers. We also know that Vickers supplied them with out grips, they being made in the Arsenals in the Indies.
To be frank, the gun feels too good to have been made up from parts.
It is really crisp and tight like a brand new Luger. If it had been made up of parts one would expect some of the parts to have been "used" this is certainly not the case with this gun. All of the parts are pristeen.
One will never know.
Regards
Murray.
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