[mrerick]

It's very unusual to find a pistol with two magazines that are so close in number. A series of pistols must have been sold to one buyer, and the magazines interchanges at their factory or installation.

This is a narrow and interesting range of Mauser Luger sales history. I believe that Joop and Don had access to the factory sales records that Jon Speed has in Germany when they wrote their book. Those are the only chance there would be of identifying the actual customer that bought them from Mauser.

Andy, another nice thing about these is that they were still being strawed, unlike military issue pistols after 1937. They are the only Mauser Lugers still being done in this attractive finish.

The "P" stamped on the left side of the frame may indicate that this was originally sold to the Swiss, and then privatized. The mark looks like their privatization mark... I do know that a very small number of Lugers were sold to the Swiss commercially. These are quite rare and more valuable. W&F was making their own Lugers at that time in their cost reduced version M1929 pattern. A year or so ago, one of the guns sold to Switzerland surfaced and was sold on Consignment over at Simpson's. They are mentioned in Bobba's book.

In any case, you have a very collectible pistol. Take good care of it.