Thank you all for the help, I just received an email from the auction house and the gentelman said that while the Persian
P08's did have the full serial number, in Farsi, on the bottom of the barrels as shown in vol. 11, page 776 of Sturgess "The Borchardt & Luger Pistols" the LP08's did not, but, since the searbar was not a match the pistol certainly qualified for a refund and that they would issue one upon receipt of the pistol. So it does appear that all will turn out well.
Lon