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I just lucked out!
Someone I know had a brother with an "old hi-power" to sell, and I agreed to buy it sight unseen, expecting a "shooter".
To my amazement, he handed me a gun with all matching numbers and waffenamts!
I will take it apart tonight, does anyone know where I can find out which serial numbers were made each year between 1940 and 1944?

Thanks,

Chief

Serial #s continued from the Belgian #s starting around 50,000. According to Whittington production #s were as follows: 1940-8500, 1941-65,700, 1942-80,600, 1943-101,200, 1944-63,000. Waffenamt #s began with 613, replaced by 103 ending with 140. Sometime after # 100,000 a letter was added (a,b, c, etc.)This should help date it.

Thanks.

I will post pictures when I get a chance.

Mine starts with 30,XXX followed by the small a.
But it does have the waffenamts (140), and the eagle stamp.

When might that have been made?

Chief

Here is the first picture;

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stamps on side;

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another one of the side;

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The right grip;

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Left grip;

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A few friends;

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three of my favorites,,,here is a Walther PP that i picked up a few days ago,,,

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Nice find guys!

PVON

Thanks Paul, I am very happy with them.

Robert, Nice PP!
I really like those grips.
My next addition will be a PP or a PPK.
(at least that is what I am currently looking for!)

Chief

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Originally posted by militarymania:
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If anyone finds a PP like this with the serial number 382000P, I'll trade one of my children for it!!!!

Denny, that pistol have some special meaning for you?

I carried a Browning highpower in the CAF in the 80's...

Hi Doug,
This Walther PP was given to me in the 1960's by a man I had a great deal of respect for when I was growing up. He was a member of the 29th Infantry Division who went ashore with the first wave at Omaha Beach. He was a neighbor and friend who is gone now.
In 1985, while going through a divorce, I sold the pistol at the O.G.C.A. gun show in Columbus, Ohio. Of all the weapons I've owned in over 50 years of collecting, this is the one I regret selling the most. I guess it really hit home when he passed away and I now have nothing to remember him by.
With the internet, who knows? It may someday show up and I may be lucky enough to get it back. Stranger things have happened - I have found the consecutive serial numbers to two other guns I currently own.