That is a beautiful gun. I had pulled the pictures off of the auction site to have the grips as a reference for some grips I would like to make some day. Love the translation program, Krieghoff becomes "war-hope"!! Literally I guess that is correct but amusing none the less. I also noted the serial number P112. According to Gibson these "P-code" commercials are pretty scarce and the Presentation Sub-variation group can be found among them. On page 199 of Gibson there is a presentation piece, P305, that was presented by Heinrich Krieghoff for the "Anniversary Prize of the German Research Institute for Small Arms in Pistol Shooting 1938". The grips on P305 are very similar to the gun at auction. Could be a presentation piece, but it is also very likely that it is a cigarette gun since the description says it is a "later decoration". Interesting.
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If it's made after 1918...it's a reproduction
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