Do the numbers match? Deutcher Pistolen are festooned with numbers; I see a 315 under the barrel and a 65, I think, on the sideplate, so I guess not. My guess: put together from parts. Enjoy your shooter!
I found a chart indicating the crown-over-N is a post-1920 commercial proof mark. There's also no elevator sight relief cut on the receiver ring, so we know the upper was never assembled to an Artillery Model. No sideplate or magazine safety tends to indicate it wasn't used by the Weimar Police. No Waffenamts or struck-through force matched numbers would point to no Nazi or Russian capture service.
Hard to say what it is, but a few things we can be somewhat certain it wasn't.
I'd say it's the perfect "shooter" Luger. I think you paid a good price and got exactly what you wanted--but nothing more. Wish a deal like that would fall into my lap!
It's very hard to tell from the distant pics, but from what I see, the edges and letterings are sharp. Usually those take a beating during a reblue. Are you sure it's been done?
Looks like a typical mix-master Luger. If it shoots and cycles well, it’s a winner. My mix-master Luger is butt ugly but has the best trigger I have ever found on a Luger. It keeps me from being tempted to shoot my all matching 1916 dated DWM.
It could be an East German rework. I have one of those, and it has a thick black finish like csa77's third picture shows. Mine has the plastic grips that the East Germans used, but if I could get wood grips as nice as the ones on csa77's, I'd replace them too, at least for shooting. The East Germans made new magazines of good quality for these guns, with a marking like 0/1000 on them. They were blue with aluminum bottoms, and I think were stamped with the gun's serial number, or at least part of it.
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