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I think that you are agonizing unnecessarily over this point.
Look at it this way; If you buy the black plastics that are on eBay you know, with out a doubt, that they are not origial to your gun! I will repeat some of what that has already been said as you seem to have missed it. Wooden grips are proper for a byf 42, these grips were on your luger, according to your account, when the GI picked it up. They fit the pistol. They look to be in nice shape and match the overall condition of your pistol. While #s and Wa's are usually found on the grips of this time frame such is not always the case. I have seen lugers with wooden grips that were not numbered or Wampt and, IMO, thought them to be original to that gun. I am certain that there are others that would agree that the sole fact that the grips are not marked with such marks does not mean that the grips were not original to that pistol. Given the fact that your grips are not numbered, the only person that could tell you whether your present grips were installed on your pistol when it left the factory would be the person that did it. This would be true even if your grips were only Wampt. Now you will have to make up your mind as to what you want on your pistol, the ones that came with it or something that you picked up off ebay. Shouldn't be a difficult decision, really.
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