Welcome to the forum, very very nice gun. I'm a little unsure what you mean by the "civil variants", there were commercial Lugers made for export in the 20s and many military guns were reworked for export in the same period but this isn't one of them. This is a military 1938 S42 which was the code name for Mauser at the time. Germany was under restriction from the Versailles Treaty at the end of WWI and not allowed to produce but a limited number of military guns but the situation being what it was a way was found to circumvent the restrictions by using the codes. The barrel is a replacement as is the sideplate. Great gun, once again welcome, and I complement you on your photographic skills and English. (Wir haben mehere Deutsche hier und sie sind alle ausgezeichnete Mitglieder)
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