Borchardt Sale

[Ron Wood]

This Borchardt is a Loewe. The stock should be numbered to the gunâ?¦DWMs are not. The handle holds the screwdriver bits that you can see in the front compartment in one of the photos. This cased set also has a cleaning rod that fits in the handle as well. It is visible in one of the photos at the bottom of the case in back. This is a little unusual since the cleaning rod in the hold-open (or as some call it the â??barringâ?�) block is the only one that comes with a cased set. I suspect that the long rod is a custom made piece, but probably made a long time ago.

It used to be that most of the Borchardts that came on the market were Loewes. The last few years, it has been about even between Loewe and DWM examples. There were roughly 1100 Loewe pieces manufactured and about 1900 DWM pieces, so you would expect the DWM guns to be more plentiful on the market, but that has not been my experience. There is an overlap in serial numbers. I have #1083 recorded as a DWM, but my highest recorded number for a Loewe is #1123! The highest number for a DWM that I have listed is #3013. I owe much of my data base to noted Borchardt collector David Eash, and I have only been maintaining and updating the list for the past 10 years.

I have always been fascinated with Borchardts, and fell in love with my first one in 1984 when I bought #72 for $2000.