If I remember correctly, fire arms made prior to the cut off date of 1934 or there abouts are not required to have any serial number at all. How ever this is a ticklish situation and you want to be d**n sure of where you stand.
I had a similar problem years ago with a Mk VI Webley. The British military had sold a batch off to the Irish Constablery. For reasons known only to the bureaucratic mind they renumbered them by placing a strike out line through the original serial number and adding the new one below it. When the Irish Constabalery sold them off they were imported into the US under the new number.
At the time I lived in Michigan where handguns are registered. The police did quite a double take over the serial number and I had to get a letter from the importer to explain it.
You cannot expect the local police to be up on the fine points of the law on this sort of thing. If it proves to be legal as is, I'd carry the paper work to prove it along with it.
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