Yes, these are ABSOLUTELY Finn grips. The Luger was purchased from Collector's Source in Canada. About two years ago they got a crate of these Lugers and maybe 1/3rd of them had the black grips, 1/3 had normal wood grips, and the last third had wood grips inletted for the removed unit disks.
When I disassembled the Luger for the first time, the whole gun was filled with the same type of Lubricant I found on my Finn Mosins, kind of a yellow-ish green storage oil. It was smeared into the grips too and I'd say these grips have been on this gun a long while. There's wear along the grips edges to suggest they some some military use at some point before being put to store.
Additionelly, they seem to have been fitted to this Luger, because the rear of the grips is covered in small swirls, as though a milling machine had machined the back to create the raised areas that synch with the frame. I don't think they're German "Black Widdow" grips, but they are Finnish issue grips, probably made in Finland.
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