Walther's Patent Cal 7,65 m/m. Finish: rough Military Finish, blued: Grips: one piece chequered Bakelit with Walther-banner, black: Serial number: 6-digits number with suffix 'K' right on frame. 6-digits number with suffix 'K' right on slide. 6-digits number on floorplate of magazine with additional 2 (spare magazine). Post war P1 grips were made of black colored plastic. The Walther P38 was in production from 1939 to 1945. After the war from 1945-1946, several thousands of pistols were assembled for the French armed forces (frequently dubbed 'grey ghosts' because of parkerized finish and grey sheet metal grips). Only after 1957 was the P38 again.
Walther Ppk Serial Numbers Date
05-26-2006, 05:56 PM | #5 |
Posts: 786 | It could have actually said 'Manhurin' like the poster before you mentioned, but I had a bitch of a time trying to read it. I assumed it was Munich, but it is most certainly a Walther, or a very similar knockoff. I'll do a search on the PPK and PP to see what I can find. Any idea of the year, given the serial numbers? Edit: Ok, I just went to gunbroker and looked at a great deal of the Walther PPK's PP's and everything inbetween, and this gun isn't exactly like any of them. Here are the main details I remember. The slide on this gun was about 3' roughly, but the safety and hammer were different than the models on gunbroker. The safety was very small compared to the other models, and plain looking, with no red dot to indicate the setting. The hammer was unlike anything I'd ever seen either. It was rather wide for a gun that size, almost the width of the entire slide, and short besides. As stupid as this sounds, do you guys remember cap guns from back in the day, where you'd put the red tape with the caps on it and a flat piece of metal would smack them to make it go off? The hammer looked a lot like that, but much more sturdy. This gun has me totally confused at this point. |
Interarms Walther Ppk Serial Numbers
The best you can do for the immediate postwar pistols is to get serial number ranges. Dieter Marschall addresses the topic to some degree in his 'Walther Pistols Models 1 Through P99,' from Ucross Books in Los Alamos. Keep in mind what was going on in Europe after the war. Walther produced both the PP and PPK until 1945. The factory had been destroyed in WWII, and because firearms production was prohibited in Germany after the war, Walther contracted in 1953 with the French company Manurhin to make the guns. Manurhin made all the post-war PPs and PPKs until the Gun Control Act of 1968 went into effect. Dvr client software download.