Gigantic Walther Luger Collection with Various WWII Pistols 

 

You won't believe this

Hey guys, I just got a large collection of collector grade Wartime Walthers, come check them out!

 

Game plan for this haul

Okay, there's actually two collections here and then also some Canadian guns. You can see that I have Walthers, I have a collection of lugers and then I have everything else. There's so much of it that I thought I would break it into three segments. Part One will be Walthers, part two, I'll show you some collector grade lugers and then finally, the everything else pile. These are about to go on the website and I want to give people a preview of what they look like. Now every one of these are collector grade, meaning I would be happy to own them in my own collection. There's no dogs in this whole group. So let's start with the Walthers.

 

22 Caliber PP

22 Caliber PP

Here's the first one, 22 caliber PP; now you actually saw this one before because for Veterans Day I talked about the name of the vet being on the inside. But now we're putting it on the website and offering it for sale. So let me show you what you get. Obviously we can't offer it for sale on YouTube but you can always go to the website. I'd rate this like a 97% - 98%. Look at the fire blue here, front strap is just as nice as the rest of the gun, backstrap has just a little bit of wear right there. But clearly a high end collector grade 22. One of the things I like about the white gloves, people say it really respects the gun but it doesn't put smudges on because whenever I handle it I get smudges on. It does have the crown N proof and that is correct for the 22; it's a slightly different placement. There's the serial number. And I think I mentioned in the previous video that it comes with two correct magazines. These are the rare seven hole and quite valuable by themselves. This says Bergmann and it is maker marked and 1942. This is actually a police style but because it's not marked, it would be a commercial holster and proper for this gun. 

 

Already spoken for but I am still going to show you

Already spoken for but I am still going to show you

This is the next one but I have to forewarn you this one is already spoken for. We actually have a waiting list on this gun. So the next person on the waiting list will get it. You see the serial range, so that is just before the war started. And in there is crown N, actually, this is a 1938 and it is 9mm. Very, very rare caliber there's only maybe 1% or 2% that were 9mm. The rarest is the 25mm then 9mm then 22, which I just showed you at 22 PP. This is a 9mm PPK, it has the bottom release and you can see it is marked. I'll go ahead and show you the magazine, just a beautiful magazine. But as I said, this one is spoken for because I have a waiting list for this gun. 

 

Another 22 caliber

Another 22 caliber

This one is a rig and this collector actually, most of his guns are complete rigs. It's a nice Akah holster, you can see the Akah logo is pretty much gone but you do see the DRGM. It's an akah holster, and it is a 22 caliber pistol. Again, all of these guns are very much collector grade, you can see. Again, this is probably '38-'39 front strap is very nice. It comes with the finger extension magazine and with 22 caliber this one is not seven hole, but the wartime had this configuration. That's just more like a straight line and there's two of them. Again, this would be proper because it's not the real early variation, this is the second variation of 22 caliber mag and it comes with one flat bottom, one thin lip, finger extension bottom and you can see some fire blue here. I already showed you the grip strap. Beautiful gun in 22 caliber. There's going to be several of them. So if you don't get the first one, you might want to check out the others because there's a couple more coming up. 

 

A Swedish Contract 1940

A Swedish Contract 1940

This is not exceedingly rare, but it is a somewhat unique variation because it has a factory lanyard; there are non-factory ones. The French lanyard was added later, and it's right here on this side, as you can see, and there were other lanyards that were installed later. But this is a factory lanyard and I believe it's a Swedish contract from the serial number that has no special markings. But there was a Swedish contract before -- this is actually 1940; so this contract is from I was about to say before the war but 1940, obviously the war had already started. Some of these were never delivered, some were; but the police contract did require that it have the lanyard attached here. So that makes this what I believe would be a Swedish contract. Here you see the magazine and actually, I believe there is no Walther banner here so that would make this a post war magazine. What I can do is put a wartime magazine with the finger extension, so I'll swap that out because it's such a beautiful gun. I hate to have a post war, like at this shine on that. I don't want to have a post war magazine in this gun. It's just beautiful. Front strap, just a little bit of wear, which you would expect to see from the holster. And again, it's eagle N, so 1940. There's a serial number. But overall, this is like a 99% gun, just about 1% wear; between here and here, there's about 1% wear. 

 

Walther model 7

Walther model 7

A very nice shoulder holster, I didn't see a maker mark on it, but it is for a small caliber pistol, obviously for a 25 caliber, and it makes a complete rig because here's the spare magazine and this is a Walther model 7 now it looks like a model 4 but a little bit smaller, you can see the crown N proofs, there's a little bit of bore damage, I think here very little bit, they didn't go all the way through. So they just got started nipping away at it. So that makes us a horn grip early, probably from like 1918 - 1920. Somebody who wants to figure out the exact date, here's the serial number. I just want to bang through these guns. This is a model 7, 25 caliber, there is a spare magazine. 

 

Which brings me to this box

Which brings me to this box

But it made me think of this box, this box did not come with it. I just got this box out of Germany, this gun does not fit in it. So it's for a smaller caliber. But I don't know what gun it goes to. It doesn't look like a model nine box that I've seen before, it is a very rare box because I showed it to several collectors who collect Walthers and nobody knew what it went to. So it's a very rare box, again, out of Germany. It's $200 if somebody wants to take a chance on buying this box and figuring out what it goes to. But as I said if you can find any literature to say which model it goes to, I'm sure it's worth a lot more than $200. But I bought it as an unknown box, other than it's an early Walther.

 

Holster for PP of PPK

Holster for PP of PPK

Alright. Speaking of shoulder holsters, here's another one. Again, a full rig. This actually goes in here I don't see a maker mark here or on the back but the PPK fits in there very nicely. You can see the barrel, actually a PP would probably fit as well because the barrel stops right about there. So a PP or PPK. Remember I said there'll be some other 22 calibers. 

 

Another complete rig, 22 caliber

Another complete rig, 22 caliber

This one is not quite as nice as the last 22 front strap is nice. This side is very nice with a little bit of there was probably a little bit of pitting there that got rubbed off. And then the most obvious is there was some pitting here and somebody took some kind of solvent and tried to wipe it off. It might be from being in the holster, because of the placement of that and it was up against the holster, perhaps the holster was moist, but that will cause it. But otherwise, really nice gun and let's see it's pretty early, 90 degree safety. It's an early gun probably 1935. It comes with a seven hole with a finger extension mag, no lip which is correct. So a correct early mag and then there's a second mag. This mag is postwar, you can see the button and see how that's a shiny follower. This is a post war magazine still it's a Walther magazine post war and then a correct magazine that comes with the gun. And all of this goes in the holster in order to make a complete rig. 

 

PPK with a surprise

PPK with a surprise

Okay, here's another PPK, it comes to the holster. Again, not marked and there's a surprise inside when I pull it open and you'll say surprise! That's is a very rare for Verchromt finish, satin nickel. In English basically Verchromt is a satin nickel finish. You can see how beautiful that is. And they did very few nickeled guns. Most of the guns that did have a alternate finish would be this Verchromt color. This is all original beautiful gun, but still only about 1% will have this finish. This is early, notice 90 degrees safety. So that makes this an early gun, about 1935. Not for far off from that last 22 caliber we showed you. And it even has the Verchromt escutcheons, so it's the correct grip. If this was blued, then somebody would have switched the grip. So it's a correct grip, and a correct magazine, just a stunning gun. You rarely see them anymore, certainly not at gun shows. It's only on channels like this, or on some of the high end auction houses, you might see one. There's not a spare magazine, because the magazine by itself can be $600. So this is a good investment grade gun and excellent quality came with this collection. 

 

Stand-alone PP commercial gun

This one is not a rig comes as a standalone gun, but just a really nice commercial gun. Look at the high polish finish. You see a lot of shine there. There's more than 1%, so it's more like a 2% wear here. A little less fire blue on the safety. But the front strap is near perfect, backstrap is near perfect, just a little bit of wear here. Again, that's where the where the holster will rub. It comes with a correct magazine Walther banner only, but somebody wanted to keep them together because they scratched in 953P right here. And that coincides with the serial number on the gun. I don't recommend you do that; if you have a gun at home and you say, hey, that's a good idea, I think I'll scratch that in there, that doesn't help the value at all, because it's scratched on it was not done at the factory. But on the other hand, it kind of indicates that probably the gun and the mag had been together for a very long time. I don't think I showed you this side of the gun, I showed you that front and back strap. Here this is just beautiful shine high polish blued. This side is about as good as it gets with the crown N proof, about 1938. This side has about 2% wear right here. So this again, just a beautiful collector grade, PP commercial. 

 

This one can be overlooked so pay attention

Now this one looks a lot like the last one I just showed you but you wouldn't know it. This is probably the rarest gun in the group but it's also a gun that a lot of people will say who cares. So let me tell you what's rare about it. 

 

Quick History Lesson

You know that when they started making Walther PPs and PPKs, they started at 750,000. Those of you who watch my channel, you've been through this a dozen times. And then when it got up to a million, so at 999,999, they went back to 100,000 and added the P. So like in that last gun we just saw, they went all the way to the I mentioned 999 with no P and then they added the P and  went to 100,000. So this gun actually is made later than this gun. But if you're scratching your head, it's because the P shouldn't be there. But in my database, I have four guns in this range, four guns where they added the P. Whether or not it was a factory error, or they were thinking about what happens when we add the P, it's just hard to explain other than there's only four known. Now I know Dieter in Germany has an extensive list as to why, about 20,000 serial numbers recorded and as I said have on all the data I have I only know of four guns that had it was in the 900,000 range with the P added. No one knows the reason but here it is one of four which makes it very very rare. Dieter sometimes will send me emails if he has more than that. Let me know, I'd like to know how many there actually are. But with a survival rate of about 10% that means there's maybe 40 - 50 of these that were made originally, and they added the P on to the serial number. 

 

Back to the gun

So again, this is probably about 1938 comes with a correct Walther banner, and magazine finger extension bottom. In terms of the quality of the gun, you can see that nice fire blue, maybe a 2% wear there, almost no wear, a little bit wear here. So maybe it's about a 96% - 97% gun, but very, very rare variation for those who care about such minutiae.

 

Do you think this is a police rig?

Do you think this is  police rig

From the holster, this looks like a police rig, remember I talked about the police style holster and sure enough this one is dated, maker marked, there isn't actually a police stamp here, it is dated 1939 and I think that's about right for the gun. But when I pull up the gun it is a police variation. So this is a police style holster in black and this is a police Eagle C. Well I've seen quite a few Eagle Cs, they're almost always on a PPK. So far more PPK Eagle Cs, probably issued to detectives or people with shoulder holsters or people who wanted to conceal carry the PPK was preferred. Far less PPs that are Eagle C, this is a more rare variation. Now you can see it's in a transitional finish. Remember how everything we've been looking at has been real high polish this one is more duller, I would say like a military finish, but probably transitional. It's not completely dull but it is a transitional finish. And you can see it is eagle N, so it's a wartime police gun. And I'd say probably from about late '42, early '43. This is a correct flat bottom magazine with the caliber that is correct. Flat bottom because the police ordered hundreds of them and didn't care about the little pinky. There is a spare magazine that comes with it; so it has a proper holster and a second magazine that also is Walther banner with with the caliber. So just a nice police rig, pretty rare. 

 

Akah Style but not Akah

Okay, this is going to be a PPK you can tell by the brown grip and this looks like an Akah holster, is it? It's not. The style, orange stitching and the almost almost orange finish on the leather. This looks very much like an Akah holster. I don't see any markings on it. So it's an Akah style, but it does not have the Akah stamp. So I'm not sure who the maker is but a very nice almost minty holster. This is an aluminum stud which means probably after 1940, after 1939.

 

A 22 caliber with this almost Akah Holster

And we have another 22 caliber. Remember I told you there'd be a few more. Now, this is as nice as that first one, a very little bit of wear here, a little bit of the fire blue gone, 90 degree safety. So that tells me it's going to be a pretty early gun, let's get the date. Yes, so this is about 1935 -1936. Here's the other side, you see the crown N proofs. There's another 2% were on here. So just a nice 22 caliber with a really nice holster, and we got one 7 hole and here's the second; two seven hole magazines, which is the early variation and correct and you already know these are expensive magazines. They won't be Walther marked because the 22 calibers generally were not Walther marked.

 

You're going to love this one

You're going to love this one

Okay, here's a variation that we all know and love. Don't know this writing, maybe it was the German, not sure what that says. This is Waffen stamped, and so is the gun. So we see that it's again in a transitional finish. It's more of a military style, not real high polish eagle N, so made after the war started. Probably about a 1941 from the look of the finish. So about a 1941. And there is the Waffen stamps. It would be Waffen 359. Just a little bit of wear, this is in incredible condition probably went to an army officer. Notice the magazine is also beautiful. You can see the Walther banner with the caliber so it went to a German officer. We're not sure what branch of service. However, the brown or tan; could have gone to the Luftwaffe, that's just conjecture, nothing to prove that but a Waffen stamped tan holster could have gone to the Luftwaffe could have gone to the Navy and could have gone to the army. We're just not sure. And it does have a spare magazine, which is correct. 

 

I just love this collector

This collector always made sure everything was done just right. That's why I love showing you these guns. It's just a great collection. And there's not many more like these around, meaning these kinds of collections don't come up very often. I used to get maybe five or six collections a year that would be this quality. Now it's much more rare. So Correct magazine, a fully correct rig issued to the German army in about 1942. 

 

Another PP rig with must-see magazines

Okay, this is another PP rig. This is going to be an early rig the holsters pretty early but unmarked, so it's a ubiquitous -- I love that word. It's a ubiquitous meaning you could go with several guns of that time; it has a spare magazine I want to show you both magazines because it's significant. So this is really early because it'll have an enclosed firing pin, two piece firing pin in closed. I'm not going to take it apart and show you but I'm sure that will be true because it has a 90 degree safety meaning it's early. It also has an extended barrel, you see is slightly extended that was an early variation. It does have a high polish finish, a little bit more wear but it's in 773. So this is very early on probably about 1930. They started production in 1929. So this is a 1930, second year of production maybe early '31. A little bit of wear here, you can see the fire blue on the extractor, very little fire blue here. 

 

Ready for the magazines

Now the magazine, I'd say a finger extension magazine but this with the Walther banner and the caliber, if you've been paying attention, that's a wartime magazine. This is a pre-war so this one is a correct magazine, this would be the spare. So I'm going to switch them around, put this in here because this is a correct early magazine and then this is a later magazine that was added as a spare and if you really care you could easily pick up a another Walther banner only magazine to go with the gun and make the full rig.

 

Walther PP with dural frame

Walther PP with dural frame

Okay, these are the last two guns. This one has a tag that tells me it came out of Canada so that was a Canadian rescue, Walther PP. If that frame looks a little bit different, that's because it is. Those of you who collect these know that this is a Dural aluminum frame. And what they did is they anodized the metal and spray painted it, so this is an anodized paint. Not sure if that's the process, but it's the same thing they do for aluminum aircraft they use an anodized finish and you can see this is Eagle N high polish finish. So that makes it early war and this would be about early 1940. The straps have the iodized paint; that wears off a lot faster and sometimes it almost turns to a greenish color, not really green but it just has a different tint to it and here it's more like a plump finish. It is definitely lighter weight. It's a little distracting wear here but nice fire blue and the side is a lot better but for a pretty rare dural. 

 

FYI -- The dural frames were experimental

FYI -- The dural frames were experimental

By the way the dural frames are mostly but not always mostly commercial guns and they were experimental, meaning they weren't sure how the aluminum frame would hold up. The military did not accept aluminum frames because they they would crack more easily or dent more easily and so the military wanted a more rugged gun. But for commercial use these hold up just fine. And in the modern era there's plenty of guns that will have aluminum frames and it's not a problem. This is a correct war time magazine with the finger extension. Wartime gun with a wartime magazine, again 1940 Canadian rescue by the way.

 

PPK Eagle C

The last one I wanted to go, remember I talked about the police Eagle C on a PP? This is a PPK police Eagle C, a little more common. A little dulling on the front strap. But this is a nice high polish finish. This looks like from about 1941, Eagle N, high polish finish, the side is a lot nicer, just 1% wear here. And then the magazine should be Walther banner only, nice high polish with no lip, finger extension. 

 

Here's a Teaser

So that was the end of the guns but I'm going to teach you with this one because I'm going to do a full length video on this gun. You see it's just incredible, fire blue, RZM so right away you're thinking I know exactly RZM from 1934. But you would be wrong because this eagle N, probably 1940. Eagle N 60 degree safety RZM. I'm gonna do a whole video just on this because there's some mysteries to be solved with this gun. 

 

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