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Some times you lose, some times you win! Update, new photos.
I've been hard on the hunt for a German occupation built FN 1910/22 and found an excellent, early example w. a pebble grain holster at a midwest auction. So I put in an absentee bid of $475.
Then I noticed in the auction catalog a clean example of a German occupation CZ-27. Again, something I've been wanting. Upon closer examination of the photos I just caught a glimpse of something I'd only seen in passing reference up on the web: a milled slide with "Politi" stamped along with a crest and SN. Always one to grab at opportunity I put a bid of $325 in and waited, hoping I was the only person to know what I was bidding on.
The auction house called today to tell me that I was out-bid by a whole $5 on the FN. Boo hiss. But I didn't walk away empty handed as I got the CZ for an excellent price (Remember that dipwad on Auction Arms that stiffed me on a CZ-27 recently? Looks like he actually did me a favor of sorts!) What did I get for $260? A Norwegian police CZ-27!
After the war the Norwegians had plenty of captured German long and short arms and the Norwegian police were short of pistols. A match made in heaven! Here's a neat story from Signalman over on the wehrmacht-awards.com forum...
Many years ago I used to collect Politi marked Norwegian police pistols. I discovered that after the war, the Norwegians had bins of Nazi pistols. The police procured them out of the bins, and numbered them in the order that they were removed from the bins.
So all the Mauser .32acp's are in the same politi number block. The
Browning 1922's in another, Cz 27's in another, and so on.
Here are the handguns used by the norwegian police before and after WWII.
No P.08 or P.38 was used.
7 ,5mm Nagant M.1893 from 1920-1945
9mm Neuhausen P.210
Cal.38 S&W Special Masterpiece M.14, K-38 Ca.1960
7,65mm Browning M.1910 from 1945-1978
7,65mm Browning M.1922 from 1945-1978
7,65mm Mauser M.HSc from 1945-1978
7,65mm Mauser M.1914 from 1945-1978
7,65mm Mauser M.1934 from 1945-1978
6,35mm Mauser M.1910 from 1945-1978
7,65mm CZ vz27 from 1945-1978
7,65mm Walther PP from 1945-1978
7,65mm Walther PPk from 1945-1978
Cal.38 S&W Special Mod.10, 27 og 36. 1976
Cal.22 S&W Mod.18. 1976
So this CZ-27 was built for German forces by the Czechs, then surrendered to and used by the Norwegians after the war. Here are the auction house photos. You can just make out the Norwegian slide markings in the 1st and 2nd photos, right along the top edge.
I've been hard on the hunt for a German occupation built FN 1910/22 and found an excellent, early example w. a pebble grain holster at a midwest auction. So I put in an absentee bid of $475.
Then I noticed in the auction catalog a clean example of a German occupation CZ-27. Again, something I've been wanting. Upon closer examination of the photos I just caught a glimpse of something I'd only seen in passing reference up on the web: a milled slide with "Politi" stamped along with a crest and SN. Always one to grab at opportunity I put a bid of $325 in and waited, hoping I was the only person to know what I was bidding on.
The auction house called today to tell me that I was out-bid by a whole $5 on the FN. Boo hiss. But I didn't walk away empty handed as I got the CZ for an excellent price (Remember that dipwad on Auction Arms that stiffed me on a CZ-27 recently? Looks like he actually did me a favor of sorts!) What did I get for $260? A Norwegian police CZ-27!
After the war the Norwegians had plenty of captured German long and short arms and the Norwegian police were short of pistols. A match made in heaven! Here's a neat story from Signalman over on the wehrmacht-awards.com forum...
Many years ago I used to collect Politi marked Norwegian police pistols. I discovered that after the war, the Norwegians had bins of Nazi pistols. The police procured them out of the bins, and numbered them in the order that they were removed from the bins.
So all the Mauser .32acp's are in the same politi number block. The
Browning 1922's in another, Cz 27's in another, and so on.
Here are the handguns used by the norwegian police before and after WWII.
No P.08 or P.38 was used.
7 ,5mm Nagant M.1893 from 1920-1945
9mm Neuhausen P.210
Cal.38 S&W Special Masterpiece M.14, K-38 Ca.1960
7,65mm Browning M.1910 from 1945-1978
7,65mm Browning M.1922 from 1945-1978
7,65mm Mauser M.HSc from 1945-1978
7,65mm Mauser M.1914 from 1945-1978
7,65mm Mauser M.1934 from 1945-1978
6,35mm Mauser M.1910 from 1945-1978
7,65mm CZ vz27 from 1945-1978
7,65mm Walther PP from 1945-1978
7,65mm Walther PPk from 1945-1978
Cal.38 S&W Special Mod.10, 27 og 36. 1976
Cal.22 S&W Mod.18. 1976
So this CZ-27 was built for German forces by the Czechs, then surrendered to and used by the Norwegians after the war. Here are the auction house photos. You can just make out the Norwegian slide markings in the 1st and 2nd photos, right along the top edge.
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