indentify, help please

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by kress

Thank you for all answers, this gun was offered to me described as a Mauser P08 with all original parts. Now I know enough to turn the seller down.

It may well be a WW II Finnish Luger, and it could loosely be described as 'original' as the Finns used whatever they had or could capture. It never left the Mauser factory that way, but could have been refurbished by a Finnish armorer.

Here's a great site on Lahti's -

http://www.gotavapen.se/gota/m40/pist40_1.htm

Page 2 has a good comparison of the late model barreled M40 and the early barreled model. (I have the early style M40).