Thanks Pete - for the link...
The Gun looks interesting because it is not "clean" cut like a machining/stamping process will allow... it looks 'one off'
Yes - it is obvious that this company has used harder metals and better machining.
I have read also that many of these were mass imported to the USA... But unlike hershies melamine this gun has all the testing marks from proofing houses and it is also to German specs for the time... The metal of the reciever is not a standard gun metal... at least not the hardened steel or Damascus I am used to.
so my real question (apart from can it be used) is why was it made? Was it a tourist type catch the eye gun? Was it a special order? Was it an apprentice given the go ahead to make a gun?
The thing is - someone for the last 100 or so years kept it in really good condition... or didnt trust it enough to fire it all that much...
I guess maybes thats the appeal of these older guns...
