daltrey99
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Building one sometimes cost more than buying a shooter grade. I would look in that direction first.
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Grand dads take home p38
- Thread starter warwickben
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Building one sometimes cost more than buying a shooter grade. I would look in that direction first.
A suggestion.
I would write up the history of the gun as you know it, sign and date it and keep it in an envelope with the gun. It will mean a lot to whomever inherits the gun and possibly add something to the value if they ever sell it.
Old firearms with any papers are worth more than those with nothing.
I would write up the history of the gun as you know it, sign and date it and keep it in an envelope with the gun. It will mean a lot to whomever inherits the gun and possibly add something to the value if they ever sell it.
Old firearms with any papers are worth more than those with nothing.
daltrey99
NES Member
Was this a factory mismatched AC45 or was it different maker parts to it?
JuergenG
NES Member
"Factory mismatched AC45" sounds like "G.I. loot" off the Walther plant in Zella-Mehlis.
warwickben
bubba Kalashnikov
I plan on making a nice display case for it. I like the letter idea to. Won't ever sell it, we'll fingers cross not bad comes to it. Like I said its the only thing I really have of my grand dads.
From the markings on the gun and what I've been told earlier In the thread , it is def a factory mismatch gi style take home. The big mystery is how/when my grand dad traded for it since he was on a boat in the pacific.
From the markings on the gun and what I've been told earlier In the thread , it is def a factory mismatch gi style take home. The big mystery is how/when my grand dad traded for it since he was on a boat in the pacific.
warwickben
bubba Kalashnikov
I hope my grand mother doesn't give me that book for a long time of you know what I mean. Some answers are good to wait for .
daltrey99
NES Member
Exactly. I was putting it in more polite terms. LOL Its amazing how much was looted from the factory.
JuergenG
NES Member
Yep, but Fritz Walther was able to squirrel away at least some of the factory collection and prototypes![[wink]](/xen/styles/default/xenforo/smilies.vb/002.gif "Wink [wink]")
Depends on the POV whether one calls it "liberated" or "looted", lol.
Depends on the POV whether one calls it "liberated" or "looted", lol.
I understand but am unsure what is a better course of action during a war (and the guns were implements of war so they would have been justified in destroying all that they found too). Back in WWII, US Military were legally allowed to bring back "war trophies" . . . my late Father got on the boat back to the US with 3 such guns (2 lost in poker games) and a bunch of bayonets.
My late Father told me of taking over the Hummel factory and he and others from his unit were throwing Hummels out the windows and watching them shatter on the ground below for amusement.
Another of his stories was that Allied bombs hit a bank in Germany, resulting in money blowing around the streets. My Dad took some of the inflated (overstamped) Reichsmarks and used them to light a cigar (I think he told me that he took pictures doing this) as he felt them to be worthless. Another soldier buddy from Texas had been shacking up with a German woman and gathered as much of the Reichsmarks off the street as he could, giving the woman a duffelbag full and telling her to turn them in (convert them) whenever the gov't did the conversion and he'd be back for her. According to Dad after the war Tex returned to Germany and married her, both being rather wealthy as a result. Spoils of war and different time and place! [A lot of things that were considered "acceptable" back in WWII would get soldiers court-martialed and imprisoned in today's world, of that I am certain.]
if only that gun could speak just the history behind it theres a place in woodstock nh that has some newer age p38's that he sell for 2-500$ but i would never park with it worth more to me than any 1911 ever will wish my dad was into guns because my grandfather had a bunch of repeaters i would have loved to get a hold of but all his hunting buddys got them i was just a little pup at the time didnt know any better
dwarven1
Lonely Mountain Arms
To the victor go the spoils.
Now that's a cool story, and that is what makes, IMHO, history come alive. We can read history books all we want, but until you can make a connection with the events, or until you get it personalized, it doesn't mean much. This story is great. +1 for sharing it, Len. Thanks. (I hope Tex and his fraulein had a long & happy life together!)
warwickben
bubba Kalashnikov
I'm gonna see if she bring the journal to thanksgiving so I can read through it to see if he says how he got it.. I'll see what she tells me, when he left when he came back. What he did after his boat sank etc ill post back this info .
