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Hi Herb,
Your statement about being 40 years after the date of the Luger makes this a forced match is not necessarily correct. Since this was a reworked Luger and it isn't clear if it was issued to the police as you can not tell if it has a police sear safety which were added starting in 1933. It is very possible that blue fxo magazines were issued to these Weimar/Nazi police Lugers clear up to 1942 as new replacement magazines from the police depots.

When dating stuff you can not lump them all into one batch and have a general rule for everything. Military Lugers have a certain magazine issued with them and and replacements would have a code (example 42 or S/42 on the base), while police have a different magazine and Weimar Lugers have different magazines and more options. In this case there is a possibility that a blue fxo magazine could very well have been issued to this Luger by a German police depot pryor to the end of 1942. -- Bill