I dropped my wife and one of her friends in Salem MA today and not wanting to walk around the "witch city"
I went to North Shore Firearms to spend a few hours, looking and talking.
I had credit card and my C&R with me. I was looking at the used guns they had, a commercial P-38 and then I saw her, my new love a Beretta 1935, it was marked "1934" but is in .32 7.65
I new they existed but new next to nothing about Berettas. It was marked Police gun so I bought it, I collect S&W, Military as well as Police guns.
I brought it home and then started researching it, it turns out to be a 1935 due to being a .32, the serial number range 517705 went to the German High Command between March and June 1944. It was made in 1944, dated on the slide.
All the numbers match, unlike my Luger, and I pulled the barrel and it numbers to the frame and slide. The bore is good, not great but ok, the finish is very nice original. I paid $320 for it.
The more I look at it the more I like it! I am just sitting here looking at it.
Now I have to get a .380 1934, big brother, for it.
