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Originally Posted by andwaahs
Don, would such an early police holster still have been paired with this pistol in 42?
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If the rig was in the US where most are veteran "bring-backs," I would say it is not likely since there was a multi-year program that began in 1933 to replace old police P08 holsters in Germany with newly manufactured ones. However, since it is a Norwegian "left-behind," I'm not so sure. It may have been surplused by the Frankfurt Schupo when it was replaced in the early 1930s and subsequently reissued to a police battalion headed for Norway. The gun is a bit odd, too. It clearly has a police acceptance stamp but does not appear to have ever had a sear safety which I would expect to see if the gun saw police service in Germany. Perhaps it too was issued to a police battalion in Norway and got paired with the holster.