Laura,
Welcome to the Luger Forum.
Pictures are always good, both because they will help identify your Luger -and- because we just love to see the pictures!
There is not a correlation between the number of digits in the serial number and the presence or absence of a chamber date stamp. All Imperial military Lugers of any description, made between 1910 and 1918, have chamber dates; LP-08 production began in 1914.
It will be diagnostic for you to photograph or describe any markings on the left or right sides of the receiver, and also on the barrel. After WWI the germans manufactured many guns for the commercial market, including Commercial Artilleries. These are found marked differently from military guns, often with combinations of no chamber date and commercial proofs (crown-over-N) or no proofs at all.
Yours is sounding like a very interesting Luger.
--Dwight
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