Wow or Ouch...?
 

Don't know what to think on this one...

http://www.gunbroker.com/auction/Vie...p?Item=6491354

Regards,

Pete... <img src="graemlins/yltype.gif" border="0" alt="[typing]" />

I think we've seen this gun on auction before. Certainly isn't to -my- taste.

--Dwight

Pete....

"Ouch"

Mostly OUCH!!

I don't mind the engraving as much, the grips are a bit too much for me. [img]biggrin.gif[/img]


But, I wonder if in real life it looks better or worse?

It is the pistol of Horst Wessel. Herr Wessel was a Nazi Storm Trooper, killed in 1930 by Communists. After his death, a poem he'd written titled, "Die fahne hoch", literally "The Flag Highly", was found amongst his belongings and set to the tune of an old German marching song. The song came to be one of the anthems of Nazi Germany and is often heard in movies. You can hear a snippet of the song in "The Blues Brothers" in the scene where the head Illinois Nazi is seated at a desk, painting a ceramic eagle as a DMV worker gives him Elwood and Jake's fake street address. Why am I so sure that the P.08 belonged to Horst Wessel ? Well, in his spare time he was a pimp . <img src="graemlins/icon107.gif" border="0" alt="[icon107]" />