This is a beautiful example of an original commercial contract series I Luger pistol that was produced in 1940. These Lugers originally started out as a Krieghoff/Luftwaffe military contract pistol, they were rejected by the Luftwaffe and then resold on the commercial market. These are not in a separate serial number range, but are instead intermixed right in the military contract serial number range. They will show both Luftwaffe acceptance proofs, intermixed with the Krieghoff rejection proofs and Nazi Commercial proofs. It is estimated that less than 50 of this series was actually manufactured. These Krieghoff lugers still show the unusually high quality of the fit and finish on the various parts. The chamber area is blank and it has the late production C-2 style Krieghoff toggle marking that has the smaller "C" style radii anchor with the left point of the anchor just slightly outside the "H" letter with the right point of the anchor touching the bottom of the "K" as shown on page 83 of the "Krieghoff Parabellum", (right column fourth picture down). The right side of the frame rail has a partial "Luftwaffe Eagle/2" acceptance proof, that was partially removed (by the Krieghoff factory) with the five-pointed Krieghoff rejection star directly above that on the barrel extension. The left side of the barrel extension, left frame rail, underside of the barrel and top of the breech block, has the Nazi "Eagle/N" commercial proof as applied after being rejected by the Luftwaffe. Some of the various smaller parts still retain their original Luftwaffe Eagle/2 acceptance proof. This luger is numbered in the commercial manner with the full serial number on the front of the frame, with the last two digits of the serial number stamped on the underside of the toggle and breech block assembly and the back side of the side plate, with the rest of the parts being unnumbered. It has the early style brown checkered plastic grips with the coarse checkering and narrow border. This pistols complete with an original nickel plated Haenel Schmeisser marked magazine that has been fitted with an unmarked aluminum base.