Hey Rglennie, it's been interesting reading the responses on this one. I actually own an early occupation one of these and have done a lot of research on them. First of all, the VIS is widely considered to be one of the finest semi autos used in WWII - period. Collectors love early Polish examples (pre occupation) and do pay "collector" prices for them. Numbers matching early occupation pieces with few or no machining short cuts and Waffenamps are also very desireable. Despite the half baked comments to the contrary, there is no way yours is a pre Nazi occupation piece. The markings don't support that at all, and note that the finger groves (a la 1911) on both sides of the trigger are missing. This is one of the more obvious machining steps the Nazis omitted as production progressed. I do agree with others that this one has been refinished - rather poorly at that. If it was in collector grade condition it could have easily fetched $1,000. I'd pay less than half of that for yours as a shooter. I love the VIS and would gladly own more than one of them. By the way, I would not use Collector's Source as a reference for pricing milsurps. They generally have great stuff but their prices are on the high end.
