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Unread 02-21-2005, 03:00 PM   #7
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Hi,

If I look through the Martens & De Vries book, they claim that 'most of the pistols were delivered without grip plates'. And most of the encountered Vickers will have the coarser Java-produced grips that were also used as replacements on DWM-made ones.

It also means that some Vickers were delivered with grips and that a British marking could therefore be expected.

The combination of a good-looking vickers with original grips would mean that this one saw very limited action or left the official circuit very quickly (that is, if everything is in order, of course).
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