Help with this Erfurt

ithacaartist · 01-21-2015, 03:33 AM

Pedro,

Sorry about the bad news, but the silver lining is that your friend can take this to the range and shoot the wheels off it (as I've heard said...) without worrying about diminishing its value in any way. What can be said about it is that was built before the end of the First World War by the Erfurt Arsenal, under contract to the military. The date over the chamber has been removed, and there's really no way to know now in which year it was made. Each part should have its own little proof, stamped at the factory--down to the grip screws, if I'm not mistaken, and this sets them apart. If your friend's pistol were in original condition, even if it's a little rough, collectors would be all over it!

01-21-2015, 03:33 AM	#8
ithacaartist Twice a Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Atop the highest hill in Schuyler County NY Posts: 3,410 Thanks: 7,594 Thanked 2,661 Times in 1,399 Posts	Pedro, Sorry about the bad news, but the silver lining is that your friend can take this to the range and shoot the wheels off it (as I've heard said...) without worrying about diminishing its value in any way. What can be said about it is that was built before the end of the First World War by the Erfurt Arsenal, under contract to the military. The date over the chamber has been removed, and there's really no way to know now in which year it was made. Each part should have its own little proof, stamped at the factory--down to the grip screws, if I'm not mistaken, and this sets them apart. If your friend's pistol were in original condition, even if it's a little rough, collectors would be all over it! __________________ "... Liberty is the seed and soil, the air and light, the dew and rain of progress, love and joy."-- Robert Greene Ingersoll 1894