Mr. Fisher,
The 1914 dated Erfurt P08 is one of the rarest of the WWII era Lugers. The 1914 Erfurt P08 is extremely hard to find, and had they gone into the q and r letter suffix block they would be one of the more common of the WWI Lugers. I have not seen a picture of your pistol, but my best guess is that the letter suffix is an incomplete strike of the letter b, which in the lower case cursive has a tail much like the q, or possibly the letter b was struck upside down. Again, I have not seen it, but current information does not bear out the production of Lugers into the q/r letter suffix block. This would indicate Erfurt production figures in the 170/180,000 range for 1914, and existing specimens don't bear this out.
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