Hello Peter,
You mention that your 1918 DWM was in a safe for 31 years and was a vet bring back I presume from WWII, so what does this prove? If this is correct, you have a WWI Luger that was apparently brought back after WWII by a vet, which has absolutely no bearing on how the Luger was issued in 1918, and only explains the condition it was in from 1945 until the present. In my opinion this clearly indicates that the tube was changed sometime between 1936 and 1945. If you want to justify it then you can play the "what if game" and say it was a field repair or and arsenal repair, but don't say it was an original issue.
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