Pete - I also want to thank you for starting this discussion. This forum and others are the places for us to learn and at the same time to perhaps resolve some of these controversies! How boring it would be if all the topics were very vanilla, we would probably stop reading (and learning) in a short time.
Regarding these "Mum Lugers" (I won't call them Japanese Lugers), the pictures above and one other I have seen somewhere indicate a very well done stamp. If this was done outside a factory or arsenal, and by an individual, it appears so good I will lose sleep over what other altered pistols are out there. A chamber date or toggle inscription would be no more difficult than these mums. Aaron and I think alike on this one.
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