Hi,
You guys are mixing apples and oranges again and you SHOULD KNOW BETTER.
Military and Police are totally different and you can not say what rules for one rules for the other.
In this case, the DWM Military Luger with the blued magazine tube is a rework. The base is probably original but the tube has been changed. Again, this is because they did not make any blued tubes until 1936. The time frame is incorrect. You can not have an issued gun in 1917 or 1918 with a 1936 tube -- it is impossible -- these are reworks.
The Police magazine could very well be correct as these Lugers were reworked and the H.S. tubes could very well have been used on a wooden base. Lots of wooden bases were restamped and put on different tubes. The time frame would support something like this as you are using an old base on a new magazine tube. Nothing wrong with this one. The police magazines are an odd bunch with just about anything possible, such as bases and tubes and numbers. Not the same regulations as what the Army magazines were required.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
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