Hi Ron S.,
Maybe the 200-400 number you received was meant to indicate the number of P-serialed guns in one particular year.
V. Bobba in his Swiss luger book estimates a maximum number of these for all the years produced at ~ 1,917 lugers with the P-serial number as follow :
1938-1939 P-25000 to P-25300 300 total
1940 P-25301 to P-25700 400 total
1941 P-25701 to P-25800 100 total
1942-1943 P-25801 to P-26300 500 total
1944 P-26301 to P-26600 300 total
1947 P-77941 to P-78258 317 total
His maximum numbers are estimates based on his research of inital and final serial numbers reported for each year. It is not certain that each year's production of the P-serialed lugers was consecutive and sequential through the number range...so the 1,917 number of lugers may be high...if time reveals that less pistols in each year's groupings were made.
Regards,
Pete... <img border="0" alt="[typing]" title="" src="graemlins/yltype.gif" />