Thank you guys for the replies, I will try to answer them in order.
-First of all, I will try to loose those screws with some lubricant this week, but I dont want to broke or damage them so if they are extremely tight I wont force them.
- Regarding its origin, I have bought it to a mate, which has had it for 5 or 6 years, I will ask him some questions about the man he bought it to.
Here in Spain there are hundreds of weapons which fought both in the Spanish Civil War ( 1936-1939) and in the WW II ( Due to the Spanish participation in the Russian Campaign). Those weapons were usually stored in garages and hidden places like churches or private houses because their owners had keept them in fear that another civilian war started. That situation was clearly described with the phrase " por si vuelven los rojos" which means something similar to " just in case the reds came again". With the years those former owners passed away and those weapons were discovered by relatives or simply workers which were performing some job in the house or church( I have some familiar story about this issue).Some of those weapons could be legalized by that moment ( former Gun Law enabled all the military officers and NCO's to have one submachine gun for their personal defence. I dont know much about civilian gun law in Franco's era, I am just 23).
So for sum it, here in Spain there is a certain amount of legal handguns which took part in both wars due to trades among military personel and other war circunstances.
This P 08 could be one of those Lugers which were part of trades among the officers ( It seems to havent been fired too much,the main using marks are due to a holster and it still has one of its original mags), but there is no documental proof of it.
IMO it has been used as personal weapon of a military man for a long time, until he passed away, when the gun was sold for first time.
Regarding the CT Afrikakorps, it is just one of the pieces of my militaria collection. I have displayed the Luger with those pieces just until I have a specific place for it, which will be a wooden box with a blue velvet cover inside.
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