Thanks I posted it on Stills forum seems to be the consensus there as well. I’m going back and forth picking it up gonna see if I can shave a little off the asking price it’s already priced as a shooter but the buff and reblue sucks.
Thats what would keep me away from it. An interesting, historical piece nonetheless.
The way I look at it I’ll never pay the full price a DH normally goes for and given that the 1920 stamp is pretty clearly stamped OVER the DH I think it pretty decisively proves these were done in ww1 not an SS job. Not to mention the cool anecdote of it going through ww1, Weimar Republic, ww2, and being reworked by east Germany. I’m getting into rust blueing anyway so if I can get the price right I can at least make it look more presentable.
I’ll post some more pictures but this isn’t an East German reblue the whole gun has been buffed and someone also poorly restrawed the small parts. Can you link me to any good articles tying these to the SS all I’ve been able to find are posts of guys arguing back and forth on them. Also how do you come to the conclusion it was done in 1938? I thought most of the theory was this was done in the early thirties for the SS gun theory.
After looking at the pics looks like you were right the poorly restrawed parts threw me off I won’t be getting it as I was on the phone with the seller unfortunately someone else bought it I always have the worst luck haha
We have all been there. Walked away to do some quick research and by the time you get back it’s gone. Kicked myself a lot of times over the years.
