NinerMaine caught me behind a table at a gunshow today. I wasn't selling, but instead filling out papers and buying the following ac45 P.38, with a b-block serial number. Very fairly priced at $625.
Built in March of 1945 just before our GI's overtook the plant in April, it received the third and final Eagle/359 acceptance stamp on the right side slide (later b-block and all c-block Walthers have only two stamps). So, this one was issued, or slated to be issued, before it was liberated. No import marks.
It has some late-war phosphate finished small parts - rear sight, slide stop, mag catch, trigger. Just one mag, but it is a correct jvd marked unit. No pitting or patina on the salt-blued parts, and just a little left side holster scuffing on the slide. No story to back up, except that the previous owner had it in his collection since the 1970's.
A real gem. Pics, and thanks for looking.
Built in March of 1945 just before our GI's overtook the plant in April, it received the third and final Eagle/359 acceptance stamp on the right side slide (later b-block and all c-block Walthers have only two stamps). So, this one was issued, or slated to be issued, before it was liberated. No import marks.
It has some late-war phosphate finished small parts - rear sight, slide stop, mag catch, trigger. Just one mag, but it is a correct jvd marked unit. No pitting or patina on the salt-blued parts, and just a little left side holster scuffing on the slide. No story to back up, except that the previous owner had it in his collection since the 1970's.
A real gem. Pics, and thanks for looking.