Newbie needs help

[Edward Tinker]

Originally Posted by DavidJayUden

I guess my thoughts are that I'm not going to get quite as spendy for a gun with magazines later issued to the gun as I would for a gun with it's original magazines, with the correct suffix, where applicable. To me the later Police re-issue mags. are along the line of matching VOPO mags.
But then maybe I'm just being a stick-in-the-mud. It does happen.
dju

APPLES AND ORANGES......

Not sure how they can be called the same; as most collectors divide pre-ww2 and later post ww2 into different categories.

Police would use what they had, but by 1935, I highly doubt they would have used wood bases. In 1926 (if I remember right) there was a directive to switch from wood to aluminum, so 9 yrs later, I would imagine that aluminum would be the preemptive choice and what was available.

With police, you have to know your stuff. there were different kinds of police, different kinds of markings, stamps, etc.

As they got into the nazi era things became "more" organized, more centralized.


Ed