Hello Ed, welcome to the Luger Forum. Sounds like a nice G Date. The W154 and S92 are acceptance or inspection marks, sometimes called waffenamt marks (waffen = weapon and amt = office). A government inspection office. The third mark is a proof mark (it's really an eagle, with feet), which mean it was subjected to an over load cartridge and obviously passed. There are six combinations of waffenamt marks in the G-Date series, yours being the third.
There should be a whole bunch of little "60" marks on most of the little parts. The 8,82 is the bore diameter in millimeters (the size of shaft that would fit down the barrel).
The trigger, take down lever, safety lever, trigger, magazine release button and ejector should be "golden" or "straw" colored.
From your description, the magazine is from a 1938 Luger. Your G-Date was made in 1935.
There were only about 55,000 of these G-Date Lugers made, so they are fairly rare. No one knows just how many still exist!
Hope this helps. A photo would be handy!!
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