There's an old gun collecting adage that many of us know, often learning the hard way:
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Buy the gun, not the story.
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The characteristics of the gun vs the story are not congruent. The other thing that I noticed is that the trigger appears to be a zinc alloy, when the early models had a steel trigger.
As James K said, it does not have pre war features.
The gun, IMO was assembled after the allied take over of the factory.
And the "expert" who looked at it and said it was the nicest condition he'd ever seen? What a joke. Some 38Hs were presentation guns and thus not fired or rarely fired. Take a look at one of those sometime. If this gun even vaguely looked like a pre production prototype, it would be pretty neat, but its not.
If that guy is an "expert" then so am I.
Post your story here...
http://luger.gunboards.com/forumdisp...s-amp-Holsters
...and the people who love these will post their opinion. There is a guy there known as "Sauerfan" who seems to know all Sauers quite well. I would take his word to the bank on these. He's actually a native of Germany but speaks English well.
PS - these are also not historically tied to the SS.