Need some help with my first (1911 Erfurt)

Werepig · 10-02-2003, 04:58 AM

Well, finally figured it out how to post photos

Here they are:

The gun also has an interesting history which was one of the main reasons I bought this pistol. It once belonged to an Estonian shooter Elmar Kivistik. He is still most achieved Estonian sportsman who won 14 World Chamionships, 6 of them individually if I remember correctly. He also established few world records, one of which stood for 17 years.
His glory-days were World Championships in Rome, Helsinki, and Luzern in the end of 1930'es, where Estonian rifle team shone and twice came back with silver Argentine Cup presented for best country.
WWII ended his career though. As an acomplished sportsman and Master Sergeant of Estonian Defence Forces he was persecuted by new power. He managed to avoid recruitment to Red Army in 1941 and joined forest brothers resistance movement after the war, but was trapped by NKVD while attemting to flee into Sweden and was exiled to Siberia.
He was able to return after death of Stalin in 1956 and lived to the end of his days at his home county, working as handyman and welder until his death in 1973. His leg was amputated in his old age because of strenuous exercises to deaden his knee-nerve (his favourite shooting positsion was kneeling).

Any suggestions about it's worth? Pistol seems to be rebarreled (1930'es Weimar?) and the mag is some kind of replacement.
Also it would be interesting to know how much the rebarreling/refurbishing of the gun has altered it's price.

Thanks:
Ivo

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10-02-2003, 04:58 AM	#3
Werepig New User Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Estonia Posts: 2 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Well, finally figured it out how to post photos Here they are: The gun also has an interesting history which was one of the main reasons I bought this pistol. It once belonged to an Estonian shooter Elmar Kivistik. He is still most achieved Estonian sportsman who won 14 World Chamionships, 6 of them individually if I remember correctly. He also established few world records, one of which stood for 17 years. His glory-days were World Championships in Rome, Helsinki, and Luzern in the end of 1930'es, where Estonian rifle team shone and twice came back with silver Argentine Cup presented for best country. WWII ended his career though. As an acomplished sportsman and Master Sergeant of Estonian Defence Forces he was persecuted by new power. He managed to avoid recruitment to Red Army in 1941 and joined forest brothers resistance movement after the war, but was trapped by NKVD while attemting to flee into Sweden and was exiled to Siberia. He was able to return after death of Stalin in 1956 and lived to the end of his days at his home county, working as handyman and welder until his death in 1973. His leg was amputated in his old age because of strenuous exercises to deaden his knee-nerve (his favourite shooting positsion was kneeling). Any suggestions about it's worth? Pistol seems to be rebarreled (1930'es Weimar?) and the mag is some kind of replacement. Also it would be interesting to know how much the rebarreling/refurbishing of the gun has altered it's price. Thanks: Ivo