Odd markings inside grip.

[Zorba]

Originally Posted by Lugerdoc

Z,It's difficult to tell from your photo, but the inside of the grip shown appear to be original and the marking could be a Mauser spare parts code --- L-S42, but I've never seen one lke it.

I'll take a squint at it "sideways" and see if I can make out anything more - to me it looks like L-54... last digit undecipherable. L-S42 would make sense though. If its a spare parts code, do you think it was a spare part swapped in later? We'll probably never know.