This 1899 Parabellum sold for a huge amount of money today...

alvin · 08-27-2009, 08:16 PM

Reading LandOfBorchardt.com article on 1899........ going on process.

The picture of the recent gift gun printed in PDF is not very sharp, I assume there is no dot on the center of the crest (?)

Experts -- How to tell the crest being hand engraved or hand stamped?

[just realized that tiny dot making theories shaking.....could that dot be added in 1929.....but.....]

Guisan · 08-28-2009, 02:24 AM

According to Eugen Heer these 20 pistols were no production models, they were mostly hand made without Borchardt or the management knowing. (page 164)
It seems that DWM wanted to start up regular production after a definite Swiss order had been received.

Guisan.

08-28-2009, 02:24 AM	#2
Guisan User Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Europe Posts: 112 Thanks: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	According to Eugen Heer these 20 pistols were no production models, they were mostly hand made without Borchardt or the management knowing. (page 164) It seems that DWM wanted to start up regular production after a definite Swiss order had been received. Guisan. __________________ Fight to your last cartridge, then fight with your bayonets. No surrender. Fight to the death. --Gen. Henri Guisan, Switzerland, July '40

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08-27-2009, 08:16 PM	#1
alvin User Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: US Posts: 3,843 Thanks: 132 Thanked 729 Times in 438 Posts	Reading LandOfBorchardt.com article on 1899........ going on process. The picture of the recent gift gun printed in PDF is not very sharp, I assume there is no dot on the center of the crest (?) Experts -- How to tell the crest being hand engraved or hand stamped? [just realized that tiny dot making theories shaking.....could that dot be added in 1929.....but.....]