I don’t know much about these pistols. I’ve been trying to read some but nothing I am finding makes much since to me. Different grips on each side? Different seriel numbers on frame and slide? Is this worthless as a collectible?
Is this a Frankenstein PP??
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It's an ex-German police surplus gun, refinished with a replacement slide and an incorrect left grip. I would not regard that as a "collectible", but these days people will collect anything, including old beer cans and cat whiskers.
An objective appraiser would view it as a mongrel of unknown mechanical condition. If functional, its value is as a shooter only, worth just its intrinsic value-- not some higher figure inflated for "collectibility". In other words, about half the asking price.
Just a personal preference on terminology: I called it a "mongrel" since all of its parts are at least proper for that model. A "frankengun" in my parlance would be a gun made up of parts from different models of guns, like a P.38 with a P4 upper.
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An objective appraiser would view it as a mongrel of unknown mechanical condition. If functional, its value is as a shooter only, worth just its intrinsic value-- not some higher figure inflated for "collectibility". In other words, about half the asking price.
Just a personal preference on terminology: I called it a "mongrel" since all of its parts are at least proper for that model. A "frankengun" in my parlance would be a gun made up of parts from different models of guns, like a P.38 with a P4 upper.
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If anyone is collecting retired police PP’s, the gun might be of interest. At any price below 400, I’d buy it.
It’s a former Bavarian police pistol. Slide and frame are both from the 1960s and could be an in-service reassembly; Bavaria also had copious amounts of both Manurhin- and Ulm-gripped pistols. Many Bavarian PP’s have the “wrong” grips, so switching around happened, although not one of each.
It’s a former Bavarian police pistol. Slide and frame are both from the 1960s and could be an in-service reassembly; Bavaria also had copious amounts of both Manurhin- and Ulm-gripped pistols. Many Bavarian PP’s have the “wrong” grips, so switching around happened, although not one of each.
So if they were closer, would that be better?
That's not for me to say; I wasn't the one who opined that they were both from the 1960s...
Or that it "could be an in-service reassembly".
Based on what?
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