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Originally Posted by Edward Tinker
Don, how many police guns have you seen without sear or mag safeties.
It is a blank looking sideplate with a police sear safety cut out? although it might be numbered underneath in the commercial style. How many people would have a replacement sideplate (no numbers) and cut out for a sear safety. Not many unless it was laying around.
The condition issues of this luger makes it a $600-$750 dollar gun in my opinion, its just interesting that it has these markings. HZA... it was in a depot repair at some point. They might have used a sideplate laying around or it might be an addition by Bob Smith in Oklahoma 6 years ago when the sideplate was missing or damaged.
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The P08s that were issued to the barracked Bereitschaftspolizei do not have either sear or mag safeties. They were exempted from the 1933 order (HWIS pp. 36-7). Many other police P08s have sear but no mag safeties. This pistol apparently never had a sear safety (or a mag safety) and has no other indications of police service. John Sabato made the same observation earlier in this thread. I don't know who stuck the sideplate on this one.