Sorry, another new guy..

[Don M]

Originally Posted by andwaahs

Don, would such an early police holster still have been paired with this pistol in 42?

If the rig was in the US where most are veteran "bring-backs," I would say it is not likely since there was a multi-year program that began in 1933 to replace old police P08 holsters in Germany with newly manufactured ones. However, since it is a Norwegian "left-behind," I'm not so sure. It may have been surplused by the Frankfurt Schupo when it was replaced in the early 1930s and subsequently reissued to a police battalion headed for Norway. The gun is a bit odd, too. It clearly has a police acceptance stamp but does not appear to have ever had a sear safety which I would expect to see if the gun saw police service in Germany. Perhaps it too was issued to a police battalion in Norway and got paired with the holster.