Joop, the problem I have with believing that DMW/BKIW was being "sneaky" in 1928-29 with blank toggles is that 9-mm police pistols having DWM toggles such as Eric's are mixed in the same serial number ranges. It's hard for me to believe they thought they would be fooling anybody.
The logic of having blank toggles on the Riff guns makes more sense, particularly if they intended to use a separate serial numbering scheme that didn't fit in with DWM's normal scheme. As Dwight noted in his 2004 posting, Kenyon (Lugers at Random, p. 238) claimed that the Riff pistols were re-serialed and that the numbers are slightly larger in size. I have never tried to investigate this but, if true, it may be a way of identifying these pistols.
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