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tom · 12-17-2001, 03:10 PM

Does anyone on this list remember the old HiHunter catalogue that was published in the 1950s? In the rear of the catalogue, (The best part to my young eyes) were photos of GIs and captured German POWS cleaning, sorting, packing and crating German rifles and pistols. If memory serves, there was one shot of a corporal with a stub of a cigar in his mouth and a pile: 30-40 disassembled lugers on a table. A pile of cannons, a pile of frames and a pile of side plates. Corporals being what they are, it doesn't seem much of a stretch to imagine that corporal not caring what side plate went with what P-08. Nor is it much of a stretch to imagine several hundreds of corporals doing similar things from 1945 thru the early 1950s.

I think this is a pretty good hypothesis on why so many P-08s are mismatched.

FWIW,

Tom

12-17-2001, 03:10 PM	#24
tom User Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 269 Thanks: 0 Thanked 4 Times in 2 Posts	Re: Seems logical, Kyrie. Does anyone on this list remember the old HiHunter catalogue that was published in the 1950s? In the rear of the catalogue, (The best part to my young eyes) were photos of GIs and captured German POWS cleaning, sorting, packing and crating German rifles and pistols. If memory serves, there was one shot of a corporal with a stub of a cigar in his mouth and a pile: 30-40 disassembled lugers on a table. A pile of cannons, a pile of frames and a pile of side plates. Corporals being what they are, it doesn't seem much of a stretch to imagine that corporal not caring what side plate went with what P-08. Nor is it much of a stretch to imagine several hundreds of corporals doing similar things from 1945 thru the early 1950s. I think this is a pretty good hypothesis on why so many P-08s are mismatched. FWIW, Tom