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ONe interesting note no one mentioned. It is very likely that parts off of this DWM Commercial are from a Imperial era World War one Luger, most were. There might be proof marks on the right side of the reciever, you have no image of that, for DWM had millions of parts left over after WW1 and Guns and it wasn't feasible to make totally new Lugers for commercial sale, so they ground the date off the chamber (Which I cannot see yours) to remove the date and sold the guns in the USA commercial market, there were even grades of the weapon you would buy according to the distributor.

A military DWM has the entire serial stamped on the barrel, receiver,than the last two digits of the serial are than on the trigger, (Commercial have sideplate and trigger stamped different example Mil has the last two on the front of the sideplate, commercial it is not visible and on the bottom) sideplate, last two of serial than on all parts of the toggle, breechblock, mid and rear toggle link, striker, safety, main assembly pin, takedown, extractor, front sight, sear perhaps, and other parts, Commercials have less last two stampings and not on all the parts as military, for example, the striker is not stamped with last two etc. As I think Ed stated the Miliatary style of stamping and commercail this is what he means. I can give write you detailed info if you want. Commercials are mainly in 7.65 mm not in 9mm, but some were in 9mm, not many, This is also a long story, i can provide a ton of info on this also.

So you easily may have a 23 commercail with a miliatary receiver that was used in the Great War, and other parts meant for other military guns, but fitted and all original. The striker are usually devoid of oil grooves, though I have seen them, what year these came into play, I have no idea, some say not Until the late 30 Mausers, some say DWM did it, I am sure someone will interject with the truth. The Word Germany is usually on the frame in front, but can be on the receiver, it may or may not have the N nitro proof.And there is a lot of other stuff I can think of but it is late, Oh, and these have NO stock lug, other than that, this is a P-08 Luger and is the same thing as a miliatary German Luger, but in 7.65mm, only real significant difference. There is much more to write but..This is my '23 commercial

You can make this a 9mm by simply changing the barrel,(But you would not want to do that) some insist you need a different spring some say no, I don't think you do. Mine worked with the same spring many times. The 7.65mm Luger/Parabellum they also say is equal to the 9mm ballistically, but the 7.65 is a 93 grain bullet that generates 295 to 305 foot pounds of energy with a velocity of 1220, where as a 9mm is usually 360 to 400 foot pounds a 115 grain bullet to 124 and the velocity is around the same to 1,300. Hand Laods you can achieve 1,400 FPS out of the 93 grain .30 with 400 foot pounds max. The ballistic date may not be totally accurate, but...sorry for the typo's.