Not that it makes any difference unless you were planning to shoot the pistol, but it is further evidence that the pistol has been put together or at least messed with:
The slider on the adjustable rear sight has been reversed (button should be on the left side) and the slider is no longer properly connected (possibly because of the lack of cutout on the frame for the sight - if it were properly connected the rear sight may not sit far enough down).
If the slider were properly connected below the rail on the sight, you would not be able to raise the sight as high as you are raising it - 80 degrees or so from the barrel. (You would have to pull the pin at the front of the sight to reverse the slider and to get it properly connected below the rail.)
Enjoy your Artillery Luger. They are interesting pistols if you start looking up their history and reason for being. An artillery with shoulder stock and 32 round snail drum would have been one of the most formidable hand held weapons on the battlefield in WW1. With stock attached, it was almost as accurate as a rifle (good up to 500 meters at least and when fired in volleys with other LP.08s, could be effective suppression up to 800 meters). With the 32 round snail drum and the Luger's rapid rate of fire, I wouldn't want to have to face a group of enemy soldiers armed with LP.08s if all I had was a slow firing bolt action rifle.
Doug
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