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Unread 03-31-2014, 07:06 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by Vlim View Post
They are a fantasy item, created by a European gun smith with a sense of humor, who saw it as a good way to add some mystique to some, otherwise ordinary, and at the time, cheap guns for export to the USA.
Unfortunately, he is 'documented' as doing this in the '60's...Datig has photos of a Totenkopf Luger taken prior to 1955...

Most of the pics in Pete Ebbinks post are so cartoonish as to be ridiculous...But Datig's TK pic looks...Ominous...

Portent of things to come??? Or a reminder of the unpleasantness that was??? Only the dead know...
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