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alanint · 06-11-2014, 06:50 AM

All indications, (frame serial number) are that this is an early pre-WW2, pre-alphabet commercial pistol. It has no Mauser hump, so that would indicate that the frame is also DWM manufacture, which would put it completely out of any "last ditch, late war, mismatched pistols" scenario. Even in the unlikely event that this was a last ditch pistol, they would NEVER have taken the time to straw any of the parts nor would it be finished so nicely!

As a pre-war commercial pistol in a non-issued caliber, it is very unlikely that it came out of an unopened crate, still wrapped in factory grease, sitting in a goverment building. Even if the Reich Chancellery did indeed have an "arsenal", it would have almost certainly ben stocked with goverment issue weapons, i.e. 9mm Pistols, and more likely P38s, not Lugers, which were subsitute standard at that point.

It is a very interesting pistol in outstanding shape. I have no trouble believing your father brought it back from WW2. It may have been matching when he got it, but somehow had the toggle train swapped out along the way. All I'm saying is that there is almost no chance this came from an unopened crate at the Reich Chancellery building.

06-11-2014, 06:50 AM	#25
alanint User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Marco Island, Florida Posts: 4,867 Thanks: 1,685 Thanked 1,917 Times in 1,193 Posts	All indications, (frame serial number) are that this is an early pre-WW2, pre-alphabet commercial pistol. It has no Mauser hump, so that would indicate that the frame is also DWM manufacture, which would put it completely out of any "last ditch, late war, mismatched pistols" scenario. Even in the unlikely event that this was a last ditch pistol, they would NEVER have taken the time to straw any of the parts nor would it be finished so nicely! As a pre-war commercial pistol in a non-issued caliber, it is very unlikely that it came out of an unopened crate, still wrapped in factory grease, sitting in a goverment building. Even if the Reich Chancellery did indeed have an "arsenal", it would have almost certainly ben stocked with goverment issue weapons, i.e. 9mm Pistols, and more likely P38s, not Lugers, which were subsitute standard at that point. It is a very interesting pistol in outstanding shape. I have no trouble believing your father brought it back from WW2. It may have been matching when he got it, but somehow had the toggle train swapped out along the way. All I'm saying is that there is almost no chance this came from an unopened crate at the Reich Chancellery building.