[Ron Smith]

Hi Ken,

There indeed was an "SA der NSDAP Gruppe Nordsee". An SA training school. Here are some original documents from an SA Troopers personnel files.

IMO, your friend has a very, very, rare and desirable unit marked, or more correctly, "Property marked" Luger. The markings are Pantographed rather than stamped, which would be correct for the era.

A quote from the description of the documents:

"Rotenführer according to a file page from the NSDAP, Gruppe Nordsee. A report from the SA group school Nordsee in a paper entitled “Beurteilung” has many good things to say about trooper Harms and it is signed by the Obersturmbannführer v. Engelin with the official stamp with eagle and swastika of the Nordsee Gruppe."

Ron