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  • Magpie

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    I recently aquired this from someone who said it was WW2. Any value? I read some stuff on the internet, some say below 10000 serial number was German issue and after seized during shipment from Spain to Germany.
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    Magdump

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    It’s very possible that it made it to Germany during WWII. Spain built a bunch for Hitler but only delivered the first 10,500 or so I’ve read (serial number 501-10,500) I know that after the war, many were used by West German police and those number higher. Supposedly the Spanish sold them to Germany twice. A few were also sent to Portugal for their navy but I’m not sure how many.
    I see yours has all the standard Astra proof marks, the shield with the X signifies Eibar house after July 1931. the bomb with the P is the fire testing proof I believe. if it was under the 10.5k serial lot it would have German mil marks on the rear right frame just above the serial number, with the serial number also just above that on the slide. The P with the star is the date code which is 1945 I believe. What I do know for certain is that the first contract guns all had the O date code which is 1943. I’ve seen one in 19,000 serial numbers that was a O gun and was issued to West German police, making it a second contract or post WWII gun.
    Value wise, I’ve seen some P date code guns go for $400-600 pretty regularly, in 80-90% condition and some pretty poor condition pieces under the 10,500 mark go for over a grand. Even if yours is into the Portuguese Naval contract, if you have a matching serial mag and it is G to VG condition you could fetch over a grand. That’s about all I know. Ask me about Lugers and I’m worth something.
     
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    Magpie

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    That info is worth a whole lot. Thats kind of what I had read but you narrowed it down and made it easy for me to understand. I appreciate you taking the time to write about it very much.


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    Cleburne

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    Just an aside, these were often used in the old Mission Impossible series. :)
     

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