Ed,
Very informative presentation. You've got the unit ID correct. Very probably, the "I" stands for the city of Wiesbaden, within the district of Wiesbaden. The photo's a bit fuzzy but I read the weapon number as 1036. Correct?
It looks to me that the area beneath the weapon number has been ground off. Can you see any remnants of the earlier mark? My research is indicating that, sometime between 1922 and 1932, the Prussian Schupo simplified their marking system to number their weapons at the precinct or command level (the Roman numeral) rather than at the Hundertschaft (Company) level. This eliminated the Arabic Hundertschaft number between the Roman numeral and the weapon number and usually resulted in a larger weapon number. It looks like this pistol was re-marked accordingly.
May we know the serial number of this gun?
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