Although this is not a collectors dream,

wolfganggo · 04-17-2008, 10:24 PM

i thinks it is an interesting gun.
A few days ago i got an 1934 "gothic S42 - K type". Bought it from an dealer here in lower austria who became the gun from an heritage.
Probably an "austrian" - german soldier, who serves in the german army at ww II.
The gun has complete matching numbers, oh sorry, complete, except the magazine and has all "gothic S" production stamps as prescribed at the "Vorschrift fÃ?Â¼r die Stempelung der Pistole 08"
The mag is a folded, nickel plated, aluminium bottom typ magazine with an round feederspring, i thing its a matching type for the time the gun was made.
The p-08 has serial 676, so it is a early bird of the mauser oberndorf production.

It's a pity that the preowner had no heart for the gun, so the finish has afflicted. not only some patina, underneath the wooden grips, i found pure rust.
I disassembled, cleaned and oiled it (anyone with experience about rust removal ????. for the first try, i placed the disassembled gun in petroleum for two days, then cleaning it with an old toothbrush - achievement of rust removal is very poor....)

I found an interesting detail. When checking serialnumbers i found 76 on one of the wooden grips (matching - bingo!), but the second woodgrip has number 67. Both had the "gothic S" stamped. For me it looks like the were made at the same time, not like a later repair of the grip
Could this be a production fault, had the man with the stamping iron transposed digits.

04-17-2008, 10:24 PM	#1
wolfganggo User Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: near vienna Posts: 93 Thanks: 1 Thanked 81 Times in 18 Posts	Although this is not a collectors dream, i thinks it is an interesting gun. A few days ago i got an 1934 "gothic S42 - K type". Bought it from an dealer here in lower austria who became the gun from an heritage. Probably an "austrian" - german soldier, who serves in the german army at ww II. The gun has complete matching numbers, oh sorry, complete, except the magazine and has all "gothic S" production stamps as prescribed at the "Vorschrift fÃ?Â¼r die Stempelung der Pistole 08" The mag is a folded, nickel plated, aluminium bottom typ magazine with an round feederspring, i thing its a matching type for the time the gun was made. The p-08 has serial 676, so it is a early bird of the mauser oberndorf production. It's a pity that the preowner had no heart for the gun, so the finish has afflicted. not only some patina, underneath the wooden grips, i found pure rust. I disassembled, cleaned and oiled it (anyone with experience about rust removal ????. for the first try, i placed the disassembled gun in petroleum for two days, then cleaning it with an old toothbrush - achievement of rust removal is very poor....) I found an interesting detail. When checking serialnumbers i found 76 on one of the wooden grips (matching - bingo!), but the second woodgrip has number 67. Both had the "gothic S" stamped. For me it looks like the were made at the same time, not like a later repair of the grip Could this be a production fault, had the man with the stamping iron transposed digits.