1943 Nazi High Power....P35...Vet Bring Back

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I just picked up a Vet bring back German occupied production Belgian High Power from 1943.

It was from the later batch of 3 production groups using an "A" suffix to the serial numbers....fixed sight, no slot, wood grips, WaA140.

The finish is a bit rough and thin in places but overall a really nice representation of the type and all matching.
Original mag tastefully blocked rather than some of the terrible conversions we have seen.

I was very surprised that the bore is very nice....no pitting at all which is apparently quite unusual for these.

It was picked up in the Holland campaign December 1944.

It was not expensive nor cheap.....fair to both parties, and really pleased to get it.







 
A very nice example of the only weapon produced and used in general issue by both axis and allies during the war. Thanks for sharing.
 
Thanks for the positive comments.
There is a piece of steel tacked to the inside of the wartime mag, just a bit of discoloration showing on the outside.
I think that's better than the big punch dents we often see.
 
Mine is in the A suffix as well.

Drem2n also has an A suffix.

I have seen a few other A suffix examples in Canada. Maybe they come from a German division that surrender to Canadians or something. Mine has no provenance.

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-Steve
 
Very nice!....likely not too far off in production dates Steve.
I was told the B suffix were attributed to 1944, with all the A's being 1943.
 
Here's mine from approximately late 1942 and some good information from my post when I got it.


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''WaA 613 = The very first Hi-Powers with the slotted shoulder stock cut and the tangent rear sight will be marked with the Waffenamt stamp WaA 613 and were manufactured from from May 1940 until early in 1941 with a serial number range of 44,500 through 65,200.

WaA 103 = The next group of Hi-Powers were made from January of 1941 until May of 1942 and will be marked with the Waffenamt stamp WaA 103. Some reports claim that the WaA 103 marked Hi-Powers were only made during 1941 so the research is still ongoing. These pistols will be found with the tangent rear sight but no shoulder stock slot. They fall into the serial number range of 65,200 to 95,000.

WaA 140 = The third and final German WWII era made Hi-Powers will be found with the Waffenamt stamp WaA 140. These WaA 140 stamped pistols were manufactured from late 1941 until the liberation of the FN plant in Belgium in 1944. None of these pistols will have the shoulder stock slot, but the early made examples in the serial number range of 95,000 to 135,000 will have the tangent rear sight. When the tangent rear sight was removed, the Germans replaced it with a fixed rear sight that was drift adjustable for windage only. It appears that the first of these WaA 140 marked fixed rear sight pistols begin at around the serial number of 150,000 which leaves a gap in the serial number range between the tangent and fixed sight WaA 140 marked pistols. The fixed sight WaA
140 marked pistols continued until around serial number 200,000 which dates them toward the end of 1942. At the beginning of 1943, a new serial code numbering system is used which began at number 01a until number 99999a was reached. Then at the beginning of 1944 the serial number 01b began and continues to about 6300b, at which time German production ceased due to the liberation of the FN factory. All of the letter suffixed serial numbered pistols will be found with the fixed rear sight.''

Cheers,

Ian
 
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