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I'll have to get back to you on those additional markings and exactly where they are.

Thanks for sharing your expertise in this forum.

As for Dok's explaination, it is certainly possible that my Dad got it from another GI who lied about he got it.

That's not what he told me, however.

I am just trying to see -- and I agree it sounds illogical -- if there is some other explaination. In all likelihood this is a shooter and little more. The holster is pretty interesting.

But taking this a step further:

Toward the end of the war, were certain regulations ignored or not enforced?

Were certain ranking officers immune from a regulation against having a chrome-plated luger?

Were any of the pre-war commercial Lugers chrome-plated?

I know nothing about Lugers. But the one thing I've learned so far is that there are exceptions to nearly everything.

I'm just exploring that possibility here.