Montreal, send me your email address and I will send photos of my grip strap. My email address is keoki77@earthlink.net. Klaus was able to find one "Plank" who was a lieutenant in the Bavarian army in WWI and I found a couple in the Prussian and Wuertemberger armies. I will check my Ranglisten for your guy but do not hold out much hope as the Offizier Stelvertretter would probably not be listed in a Rangliste. As your pistol is dated 1917, which is late in the war, he may not have been promoted further prior to the end of the war in November of 1918.
I will check my Ranglisten both for the first war and second. He may have survived the first and been a commissioned officer in the second. It's a stretch but one never knows.
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