This WWII German Army Issued P.38 is marked "byf" (manufactured by Mauser), "44" (1944), along with (4) Eagle/WaA135 & (1) Eagle/Swastika (Mauser Military Proof with Nazi acceptance). This gun is numbers matching on all visible parts. The magazine is marked with the Eagle/135 Mauser/Nazi military acceptance stamp. SPECS: 5" barrel, brown ribbed Bakelite grips, lanyard ring, loaded chamber indicator, dovetailed notch rear sight, dovetailed #4 front sight, rear slide serrations and serrated safety lever. CONDITION: This pistol is in nice condition with some light wear, has an excellent sharp/ clean bore and appears to be in good working order. HISTORY: The P.38 is a 9mm Luger semi-automatic pistol that was developed by Carl Walther GmbH as the service pistol of the German Army at the beginning of World War II. The P.38 was a groundbreaking semi-automatic pistol design which introduced technical features still used today in current commercial and military semi-automatic pistols. It was the first locked-breech pistol to use a double-action/single-action (DA/SA) trigger. The P.38 also introduced a visible and tactile loaded chamber indicator in the form of a metal rod that protrudes from the rear of the slide when a round is chambered. During WWII, the P.38 was produced by three separate manufacturers: Walther, Mauser, and Spreewerk. To conceal manufacturer identities, each wartime manufacturer used a letter code: ac (Walther); byf (Mauser), and cyq (Spreewerk). FREE SHIPPING & NO PROCESSING FEES.