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This pistol is from the first production at Mauser, I acquired it at the recent Rock Island auction. There were many problems with rejected P38's, from Mauser, in the very begining. Only 700 guns were accepted into service by the military in December of 1942. The problem was so severe that the 15,000 leftover bfy 42 coded slides had to be assembled onto accepted pistols in 1943. It is not known the serial numbers of the accepted guns in 1942 however only the first several hundred guns will have any small parts marked e/135. The first 25 guns will have all the small parts marked e/135.
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