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Unread 11-30-2013, 09:22 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by klaus 3338 View Post
I forgot to mention that the former Dreyse holster was issued to mounted "people".
... ??? ... Klaus, that is a curious comment...What or who exactly were the 'mounted people'???

Cavalry??? Supply train 'people'??? Artillery???

A quick look in my library simply says 'issued to special [WW I German] troops'...

Edit 1: Hogg's German Handguns says it was issued 'primarily to staff officers and rear area troops'...

Edit 2: Wilson's Textbook of Automatic Pistols [pub 1934] simply refers to it as made before 'the Great War'...
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