SOLD - Mauser Pistolen

SOLD

$90.00

UPC:

SKU:: 080620-15

Description

8/6/20 - Mauser manufactured a number of pistols of the firm's own design. These included roughly a million examples of the famous C96 (plus 100,000 selective-fire versions and 1,200 hunting carbines); 500,000 blowback pocket pistols; 80,000 examples of two versions of the tiny 6.35mm WTP Äúvest pocketÄù pistol; and 261,000 HSc pistols. Over the years Mauser also manufactured several handguns which had been designed elsewhere, including at least 7,800 Reichsrevolvers; 1,000,000 Parabellum (Luger) pistols, including lange Pistolen 08 (ÄúartilleryÄù Lugers) for Persia and Siam; plus 340,000 P38s. In addition, many other pistol models were produced as prototypes only. Many of these photos are from rare glass plate negatives which have never been published before.