Beautiful work as usual by Thor.
An Erfurt frame should also have a crown/letter on the front of the trigger guard.
It's interesting that it appears to have had a hold open added. That's odd for a frame with a stock lug. The directive for the hold open came in May, 1913 while the stock lug directive was in August, 1913.
It's purely speculation, but could the frame have been from one of the pre-production Artillery test pistols? Commercial Lugers were made with the stock lug but only by DWM as Erfurt didn't make commercial guns.
The other possibility, as I see it, is that a repair was done to the hold open and the hole drilled then.
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