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Thanks for the replies and confirming my suspicion with the "Italian connection". I think the wooden grips were an extra. Digging a bit more on the internet I found a P38-K sold in the US last year with the same identical wooden grips: Walther P38k...Factory Snub-Nose P.38...1-Of-2600 Made...Munich Police Marked 9mm Luger . Hence they should not be individual fittings.

 

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They mistook the Bavarian proof stamp for a Bavarian Police Property stamp, nothing surprising with US dealers and European stamps.

 

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Therefore I assume that the markings on the right side of the slide after the marking eagle over N, i.e. the coat of arms with diamonds and the number 77, have something to do with the Munich police.

It is the proof symbol of the Beschussamt München. See yourself at Ortszeichen deutscher Beschussämter . This is what the seller called the Bavarian Police Property stamp, and this is simply incorrect.

Generally spoken, I see no issue with a pistol having two firing proofs, even if they are within a very close time frame. There are enough reasons why a pistol would need to be reproofed.

 

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I'm not an expert on this sort of thing, but I still doubt that there are actually proof marks on the right side of the slide, even though one of them looks like that.
From 1977 onwards, the year of the proof test was always coded, as on the left side of the frame with HH = 77, 1977. Behind the alleged sign of the Munich proof house, however, 77 is a number and not a code. Strange, isn't it?
And what should the number 23 after 77 mean?
And a weapon is tested twice within just one year by two different proof houses? Very strange, isn't it?

No one in Europe would fake a proof stamp since this would be the same crime as to fake a passport - also this would not add any value, so doesn't make any sense at all to do a "fake proof". And I see no reason why to fake a proof stamp in the US. There are enough reasons for a weapon to be proofed twice, even within a year. A major repair would be one reason. I have a rifle which has three firing proofs, all from the same proof house, two within one year (original proof, proof when barrel was changed two years later and the same year another proof when the new barrel was threaded).

 

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Wow, a svw45 P.38 was 575 DM (~ 300 Euro or 350 Dollar), at the same time the P38-K was 945 DM (nearly 500 Euro or 600 Dollar).

 

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The Euro has been introduced 1st January 1999 unofficially since the first cash money was introduced 1st January 2002. As mentioned UK never adopted the Euro, nor did all European Union countries adopt it - only 19 countries adopted it.