Barry,
Yes, you are correct...as Ed has indicated, commercial lugers manufactured in the 1920's used the alphabetic characters as part of their serial number. The commercial style of a 5-digit serial number was closing in on 6 digits. Rather than going to 6 digits the "alphabet" series of commercials picked up with the letter "i" (the ninth letter in the alphabet indicating a block of 10,000 guns) therefore a Luger in this series would be numbered "xxxx i" (or production number 9x,xxx). So your gun's serial number 7305k is effectively 117,305.
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If it's made after 1918...it's a reproduction
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