Black Widow: Fake, Rework, or What?

The E German grips might be recent replacements the owner bought at a gun show and slapped on. Often, orig grips were removed and replaced by the GI's for various reasons and lost over time.


As for out of sequence P08's--I was fortunate enough to see a commercially stamped (post 1941 E/N) Erfurt that was in some of the dip blued Russian imports. It had, of course, been reworked but in its original incarnation as indicated by assembly, s/n's and other details it was a commercially sold luger with Erfurt toggle. As best I can tell from reading Still's 3rd RL's book (which pictures a similar luger)it was made up of old parts during WW2.