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6-digits number on floorplate of magazine with additional 2 (spare magazine). 6-digits number with suffix 'K' right on slide. Finish: rough Military Finish, blued: Grips: one piece chequered Bakelit with Walther-banner, black: Serial number: 6-digits number with suffix 'K' right on frame. Manurhin made all the post-war PPs and PPKs until the Gun Control Act of 1968 went into effect. The factory had been destroyed in WWII, and because firearms production was prohibited in Germany after the war, Walther contracted in 1953 with the French company Manurhin to make the guns. Walther produced both the PP and PPK until 1945. After the war from 1945-1946, several thousands of pistols were assembled for the French armed forces (frequently dubbed grey ghosts because of parkerized finish and grey sheet metal grips). The Walther P38 was in production from 1939 to 1945. Keep in mind what was going on in Europe after the war. Post war P1 grips were made of black colored plastic.
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Dieter Marschall addresses the topic to some degree in his 'Walther Pistols Models 1 Through P99,' from Ucross Books in Los Alamos. The best you can do for the immediate postwar pistols is to get serial number ranges.
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