1919 Dated
I was sent these photos years ago by a local dealer looking to sell the gun. The story was that the gun was made in the Khyber Pass region near the Afghan-Pakistan border by the legendary arms cottage industry based there. Although I don't know that this was ever confirmed.
Some time later I was able to examine it in hand and it was clearly a working pistol that had seen plenty of use. No part of the gun appeared to be original Luger and it showed all the signs of having been made entirely with very limited machinery and basic hand tools.
The pistol was sold to a local collector and it was auctioned again just a couple of years ago, so I imagine it's still in NZ.
Sure, an example of a fake, but also of the work of someone with real skills.
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