I own a gunshop and had a customer bring me a P38 and I am having a hard time finding info on the gun. Here are the markings I can see.

Slide:

P. 38
cvq
SN: 2596
s (in front of safety)
looks like eagle over 88
eagle over swastika

Barrel:

under bbl sn matches slide
top stamp looks like lion on hind feet

Frame:

SN: 2596 with what looks like an e after
eagle over 135 above trigger
trigger has eagle over 359

Grips look like wood shavings mixed with brown/red plastic
Magazine base plate sn matches

Barrel looks great, gun shows some wear and lots of machining marks but the black finnish looks great.

Any help would be great, I have another customer that wants it bad, but I might need to keep this one for myself.

Thanks
Jeff
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