No one in this discussion has yet advised you to be cautious about the matching magazine. Always be suspicious of a matching magazine, these have been ground and re-stamped for decades. If you do not know how to positively identify one yourself, show it to a collector who can before you put your money down.
I suggest that it will be just as difficult to find replacement e/655 grips as it would a true matching magazine. If you do find them, they will not come cheap.
You note that you have been offered a comparable S/42 with holster. You don't say, but I presume the cost is comparable. I won't presume to tell you how you should advance your collection, but I will suggest that you ask yourself, whether you will be happier with a Luger you can confidently present as authentic, or one with which you will be engaged in a long (and possibly fruitless) search for the parts to "make it right"?
--Dwight
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