THANKS RICHARD!
....you are 100% correct.
I examined the gun and the mark is clearly NPv - so it's Vienna!
The VOH stil remains a mistery .
LUGERDOC suggested it might be a poorly struck "VONO" who was reworking lugers during and after WW2. Or that it may just be the initials of the smith that altered this luger to a 9x21 Caliber.
I doublechecked and I found that the VOH is really neatly struck so it can't be VONO.
Also no one here in Italy seem to know about a gunsmith with VOH as its intitials (in fact over here we virtually have no Italian names/surnames starting with an H....
As I said I thought it could stand for VOlks Heer (ie: People's Army In Eastern Germany, like VOPO stand for VOlks POlizei, but I may be wrong of course....
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