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Those who know me, know I can't resist what I call 'story lugers', P08's which show their long service history through markings and modifications.

Just in is this interesting 1917 DWM.

It started life as standard 1917 P08 in WW1, made it into the police/Reichswehr after the war, was marked 1920 during the government buy back period and received both a sear safety and magazine safety, the latter being removed again. Somewhere along the line, the pistol got a new barrel, 2 Simson Eagle/6 proofs and a PTV marking.

After WW2 it found it's way into East German hands and was overhauled for duty in the DDR. It must have been in good shape, only the firing pin and hold open were replaced.

The magazine is a DDR Ernst Thälmann 2/1001 marked version, numbered to the gun.

That's about 80+ years of service through some interesting times.

An overjealous reworker electropencilled the original sear with another 18.

The pistol was reproofed in 1983 and marked by Frankonia.