Pictures are always needed, but some wording helps too, I think its dated 1938.
Lets start with welcome to the forum.
No combat pistols (P38 or Lugers) were chromed, they just weren't, so it is a shooter. It is possible to take the chrome off, but the right folks need to know how to do it.
It is a 1930's (the date shown) made, S/42 (code name for mauser) made for the army.
Its grips if original are worth a couple of hundred if plastic (bakelite) material and maybe a $100 if wood, and should be replaced so they don't get broken in shooting.
Ed
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Edward Tinker
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Co-Author of Police Lugers - Co-Author of Simson Lugers
Author of Veteran Bring Backs Vol I, Vol II, Vol III and Vol IV
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