John S,
You are partly right. The 1902 Fat Barrel (in both American Eagle and Commercial), the first production Luger in Cal. 9mm, was an old-model gun and did indeed have dished toggles.
The 1906 American Eagle has a regular checkered toggle surface, and there was a version manufactured in 9mm. It is somewhat rarer than the .30 cal. 1906, Kenyon estimates there were about 3,000 manufactured stamped with the American Eagle. Both models came with a magaazine stamped Cal. 9mm in script along the length of the mag base.
Coffee, it looks, indeed, like this is a 9mm gun. Is this in fact the case and, if so, what is the magazine base marked?
--Dwight
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