[mrerick]

Is the pistol in .30 Luger caliber? Is it a "u" or "v" suffix serial number?

There is a range of commercial Mauser Lugers known which were analyzed in Joop van der Kant and Don Hallock's book on Mauser Lugers. I have one dated in 1938. The receivers might have been from spare stock and assembled into commercial pistols at a time when the factory was saturated with work for military contracts. My pistol has a Crown/U Oberndorf proof house commercial proof. There are not many of these pistols out there, but the demand isn't particularly large either.

There really is not enough detail in the first photos to help with much analysis.

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