I can't say for sure, but with some years of manufacturing and gunsmithing experience behind me, IMHO, the alignment of serial numbers on the hundreds of Lugers I have examined, leads me to believe that the number stamps were applied individually... although some type of manufacturing jig was probably used to place them...
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