Factory Nickel Nazi Party Official P38?

Nazi party is already BS. He should at least have stated NSDAP member, show the party book, with a low membership number, and some more documentation until then, it is a $499 gun ( plus tax).
 
Buy it as as a shooter ... but the chance of a factory P-38 nickle finish on a late war cyq is extremely slim and none . A few more close up photo's posted on the www.p38forum.com site will get you the answeres about if this is a refinish or not .
Those guys can spot a refinish a mile away and sometimes tell you where the refinish happened . My 1943 cyq P38 had been refinished and imported back into the States for resale by Kleins Sporting Goods by mail order , in 1961... Shooter value only ... no collector value because of Kleins refinish .
That site has some knowledgeable collectors there and can advise .
Gary
 
but the chance of a factory P-38 nickle finish on a late war cyq is extremely slim and none
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And I'm pretty sure "Slim" is out of town.....:rolleyes:

If I recall correctly SpreeWerke (cyq) was the last of the subcontractors chronologically, producing P.38 from about mid war till the end. They made quite a few, and their guns have a reputation for having the roughest exterior finish of any of the WWII P.38s.

I seriously doubt they would have wasted time, and valuable nickel during the latter part of the war.

However nickel plating is something that was not uncommon, done after the war, by/for GIs who wanted the gun to look pretty or to protect it. None of the very few nickel finished P.38s and Lugers I've seen were done by the manufacturer, every one was done by someone else after the war was over.
(and before people began to realize the collector value of original condition guns).

As far as I'm concerned, absent a verified letter from SpreeWerke naming the gun by ser# and stating that they gave it a nickel finish when they made it, then it has been refinished.

If the asking price is really $2995, somebody's been smoking their lunch..
If it $1995, its still barking stupid high. In my opinion...
 
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