Early Dutch with the grip safety and no stock lug have the upward pointing arrow like this frame. After 1928 the Dutch Lugers were made like the German P08 without a grip safety and with a stock lug...these guns have a downward pointing arrow. Obviously Ed's frame came from an early Dutch.
Usually when I see a frame cut like this it is because someone was salvaging the stock lug to restore a Luger that had its stock lug ground off or to add a stock lug to a grip safety frame to create a "carbine" from a M1900 or M1906 Luger. Since Ed's gun never had a stock lug I have no idea why it was cut that way. Perhaps to restore a grip safety Luger that had a badly damaged lower rear frame?
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If it's made after 1918...it's a reproduction
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