Any info appreciated !

[Don M]

After looking at the most recent photos, I now believe the suffix is an incompletely struck "o." This makes the pistol an Alphabet DWM, manufactured in the latter half of 1925 (Still, Weimar Lugers, p. 15). This is more consistent with the other evidence: the 1920 government property stamp on the receiver and the markings on the bottom of the barrel. While 1925 is late for the application of the 1920 property stamp, I have seen it on Lugers manufactured in 1924 and sold to the Landespolizei Thüringen and at least one mid-20s Prussian Schupo Luger. It is rare but apparently some police continued to use it as a property stamp long after the original intent of the stamp was moot.

The rest of my discussion above remains valid. While there is no way to prove that the holster and mags were captured with the gun, there is no evidence to the contrary. You have a Luger with a very rare police marking. While I have recorded Type 3 S.Ar.II markings on a holster and two bayonets, this is the only one I have seen on a Luger. Congratulations!

Ed, the marking on your tool is an earlier Type 1 marking probably from the Schupo command at Dortmund. It is listed in Table 7-10 of HWIS.