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I made time to take the gun apart (much to the irritation of my wife). Anyway I learned a few more things.

There are no proof marks anywhere, also no import stamps or Germany stamps and no date. The inside of the barrel (S/N 2XXX, suffix a) is really beautiful.

Cannon Assembly--Receiver is white on the inside. I hadn't noticed before, but there is a depression at the forward left side of the receiver where my other Luger receivers have serial numbers. The receiver S/N on the outside has been ground off. The lug on the front underside of the receiver behind the witness marks has the last two digits of the barrel number. The witness marks on barrel and receiver are perfectly aligned and a zero or O is stamped on the receiver at the mark. The toggle (both pieces), bolt, toggle pin, and side plate (no inside numbers) also have the last two digits of the barrel number. THE FIRING PIN IS FLUTED AND HAS THE LAST TWO DIGITS OF THE GRIP FRAME SERIAL NUMBER. It does have the sear safety discussed before.

Magazine--Silver plated sheet metal with aluminum bottom. The four digit barrel serial number is stamped across the bottom along with a one. Also there is something that looks like the "bomb" symbol (more like a * with ears).

Grips--Old and decent, varnished or shellacked but no numbers.

Grip Frame--Inside is white, S/N is 2XXX, suffix h (different from barrel number, but overstamped or damaged and hard to read). Slight pitting under right grip. Also, LC stamped (under left grip) on lower rear corner and K (under right grip) on lower front corner. The hold open device, trigger, safety bar (that sticks up behind the trigger bar), AND FIRING PIN have the last two digits of the grip frame number.

I'm guessing from Dwight's responses that this is a Police rework of a commercial upper (evidently after 1932 based on the toggle pin numbers and magazine) and a military lower.

Any other ideas anybody? I hope it shoots.