Help with Luger marking identification

[brendansags]

Hi Everyone

I recently came into posetion of a 1939 Luger that has a few miss matched numbers.
the only marking i cannot identify is a WR and number on the side. if any one knows what this is i would love to know
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[Sarge]

Probably a property/unit mark/ser nr from some user post WW 2.
Sarge

[CINDERS]

The No.34 comes up as unknown in my book on German Proof marks and maker codes with no reference to the WR

[Patrick Chadwick]

The number 34 on the sideplate is simply the last 2 figures of the number of the P08 to which it was originally attached. - Lugers have numbers on parts where other pistols don't even have parts! Just about everything apart from the springs had the last two figures stamped on.
I am also stumped for WR. Note that the WR looks as if it was not stamped at the same time as the 5-figure number that follows.
This pistol is a "bitsa", assembled from bits and pieces from all over the place.

[CINDERS]

I got it Patrick "Westley Richards"

[Patrick Chadwick]

Sounds right!

[MSW2]

It could perhaps have been in South Africa at some stage. When for some reason the normal serial number was not used by the government to register a gun a WR number was assigned to it and stamped on. WR = Wapenregister (Weapons Register).