Hi Marvin,
Your reply: "The wood grips were usually not numbered to the pistol and most did not have the Waffenamt Stamp on them. At this time, with the Luger goinf our of full scale production, i assume they saved time not nmbering or checking the grips," IS NOT CORRECT!
I do not know where you got your information, but your statement is totally false. It is in fact just reversed. Almost all of the byf 42's have the last two digits on the inside of the wood grips and almost all of them have the eagle 135 acceptance proof. In fact, it would be the exception to find an original issued byf 42 rig that did not have the last two digits and the eagle 135 proof on them, or at least one of them. Each year and variation are different and one has to consider each seperately.
Data sheets show this to be the case as do collectors that collect these variations. It must be very confusing for the new collectors to post here and get numerous somewhat different answers as they do not know what to accept and what not to. Anyway, use the information, or reject it, (as I never wrote a book, and I'm not in Germany and that seems to be the requirement to have any information accepted anymore), but don't go by everything that is printed in a book. Good collecting!
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