Don, this pistol does have a number of interesting features and a variety of plausible scenarios could be developed to explain them. Rather than add to them, I will offer several comments/observations.
I don't think the right side of the receiver has been scrubbed. The "
C/G" is actually
C/T. This acceptance stamp, along with two
C/S stamps is found on virtually all 1917 and 1918 DWM P08s (
http://luger.gunboards.com/showthrea...EPTANCE-STAMPS). The lack of C/S acceptances suggests the pistol had not been fully accepted by the military by the end of the war. Many 1918 police P08s share this feature.
I question whether this pistol was reworked at the Berlin Police Armory. While the barrel certainly appears to be from Simson, the lack of a
PTV/E or
TP/E proof suggests this was done elsewhere, probably before 1927.
The inventory number in the Schupo marking may be 1143 but I surely will not go to the mat over this.