Hi Jake, Welcome to the forum! Unit marked Lugers like yours are particularly interesting and we would like to see more photos. Does it have a dated chamber? Is the middle toggle marked DWM or Erfurt?
Your unit marks translate to 173rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Machine Gun Company, weapon #180. What interests me is the fact that the 2 was added later. At the start of the war each regiment had only one machine gun company, so no number was needed. Later in the war each regiment had two or more. Here's a photo of the unit mark on a DWM 1st Issue (1909) from the same regiment. Regards, Norm
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