With a V 386-range serial and the US property stamping on the top strap it would have originally shipped in mid- to later 1943 as a standard Lend-lease-destined gun. The P is a military proof applied to all Victorys by ordnance inspectors at the factory.

The finish is the standard sandblast Black Magic, the only one in use by that time.

Both the OSS and the British SOE provided arms to the Resistance via sea and air, and once in circulation in France it could have changed hands in any imaginable way to get in the hands of that particular organization; impossible to say when the PPF marking was applied.