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Originally Posted by Beaversyrup
..... Its serial number is 783734 (all matching) and appears to have the correct bluing for a pre-victory in its range. It lacks a "UNITED STATES PROPERTY" marking. Nor does it have any commonwealth markings. Markings inside the grip are done in pencil and hardly legible. The butt of the pistol has a P and some other marking I can't make out. Can't confirm if the grips are matching (they fit as though they might) but they appear to have a 46 painted on them.
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The gun does indeed look all original.
It’s too early for a Lend-Lease property marking. It would have been part of a mid-1941 direct purchase contract.
I think that marking next to the P proof is a Canadian stamp, which would also explain the absence of British post-war proofs. The 46 is likely a local inventory number of some sort. But penciling of grip serials ended a decade earlier and was replaced by stamping, so those may not be the originals, although period-correct.