Grips are easy to swap around. Many VoPo's did have their grips swapped to camouflage their origin.
I don't see any direct VoPo evidence yet, but it does look refinished. The barrel is still original to the gun, that's good. And sideplates were removed to render pistols useless (or so they thought), so you do see many with swapped out/replaced side plates. Grips look nice, remind me of the brown Krieghoff ones.
But many that came out of Eastern European stores after the Cold War ended, had their grips renewed with assorted plastic replacements, so it's hard to say who swapped out what and why.
It has a good look to it and prices have been going up, so I think you didn't too bad on it. At least you got a good Mec Gar magazine in the deal, they are excellent shooting magazines. Check the bottom of the other magazine (alu bottom), it could be worth something extra as well if marked properly.
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