1./A.R.1.40 any info on this unit please

[Ron Smith]

James,

I would definitly classify it as a lower end collectable. Russian Captures and VoPos are drying up. You don't see them for sale as often, and the prices are gaining. I bought my first VoPo for $250, 2 years later I sold it for nearly $700. Today it would bring close to $900- $1000.

Here's some additional info on the 121st Artillery Regt. The last sentence confirms that your Luger was most probably captured by the Russians around Kalingrad.



The 121st Artillery Regt was part of the XXVIII Army Corps

121st Infantry Div. under Major-General Helmuth Priess

405th Infantry Regiment, 407th Infantry Regiment, 408th

Infantry Regiment, 121st Artillery Regiment

The corps was created on May 20, 1940 in Wehrkreis (Military Region) III. During the war, the corps was subordinated to the German 6th, 16th, 18th, and 3rd Panzer Armies. In 1945, the corps was briefly named Armeeabteilung Samland (Corps Task Force Samland). The corps fought in Samland until annihilated in late April 1945.

Samland is a peninsula in the Kalingrad Oblast of Russia, on the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea