DWM P08 Commercial 1920

[Sergio Natali]

A local gunshop has recently acquired several DWM P.08 "commercial" 1920 10 cm barrel, 7,65 Para. like the one in the photo that is one of them; they are more or less all in a very good condition, I searched for more information about this sort of Luger, but while I already found a lot about 1900/06 commercial pistols, so far I've not read much about these P.08 DWM Commercials, apart from reading that they were called "sneek luger" as they were not marked Germany or Made in Germany for export, instead these guns were hidden to equip a new german army, but I'm not sure about this...

Somewhere else I found: quote: " ... Luger pistol that was manufactured by DWM during WWI and subsequently reworked and sold as a Model 1920 Commercial Luger. Following Germany's defeat in WWI, the Treaty of Versailles strictly limited the number of handguns the German military could retain. In order to generate revenue, thousands of WWI surplus Luger pistols were reworked and resold into the commercial market. .. " unquote

I wonder if among our Luger friends there is somebody particularly expert about these P.08 that could give me some advice.