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 pistols, but they were rejected by the Luftwaffe and then resold on the commercial market by Krieghoff. This exact Luger is pictured and described on page 215 of the book "The Krieghoff Parabellum" by Gibson. These are not in a separate serial number range and are instead a "commercial" subvariation of the military contract serial number range. Some will show Luftwaffe acceptance proofs intermixed with the Krieghoff rejection proofs and Nazi Commercial proofs. It is estimated that less than 50 of this series were 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 and 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 barrel extension has the five-pointed factory rejection star, and a partial "Luftwaffe Eagle/2" acceptance proof is on the frame rail. The left side of the barrel extension, left frame rail, underside of the barrel and top of the breechblock have the Nazi "Eagle/N" commercial proof applied after being rejected by the Luftwaffe. Some of the various smaller parts still retain their original Luftwaffe "Eagle/2" acceptance proofs. This Luger is numbered in the commercial manner with the full serial number on the front of the frame and the last two digits of the serial number (35) stamped on the various other parts and some parts unnumbered. It has the early style brown plastic grips with the coarse checkering and narrow border. This pistol is complete with a replacement blued Haenel Schmeisser magazine marked "122/E37" on the lower left side with an unmarked aluminum base.