The right grip back side matches the type 4 Mauser grip pattern photographed in Dave Molchan study in Hallock and van de Kant "The Mauser Parabellum".
It's interesting to see a similar area in Chris's grip.
I'm not sure that the grip screw area edge is the result of chipping off or whittling as much as the compression of the screw itself.
I definitely agree that someone put these on the 1939 Luger post war.
It's odd that such a rare Left grip would be mated repeatedly with these black grips.
Does anyone know the details of the bakelite molding process, and if "speeding things up" could have accounted for these soft edged blob like deposits?
I am concerned that someone may have tried to reproduce these, but by the time this was sold to the prior collector, it would have been cheaper to make them out of thermoplastic as is done today.
Marc
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