Two nice pistols out of the woodwork

[rajko84]

I picked up grouping from the woodwork. nice all matching Luger BYF 41 and AC40 all matching with matching mag.

[Serge M.]

Nice ac40, 41 Byf and all those holsters and P-38 mags.
Great score.
Congrats !

[rajko84]

Crazy story about this was that family for wanted all the pistols but they let me pick two out of the grouping. One Luger and one p38. But then they took all of the pistols out of the holsters and said they do not need holsters or extra mags, so I bought them all

[Sgt. Steiner]

Nice. Super catch. Thanks for sharing. I love hearing the "out of the wood work" stories.

[Alan Smith]

Rajko:

Yes - thanks for posting your latest find . . . good stuff!

So, do I understand correctly that all of the holsters had pistols in them . . . for a total of 12+/- pistols? The vet's family, however kept all but 2 pistols, less the holsters and spare mags?

I've seen and/or heard of some crazy stuff (including damage to artifacts) done by vet's families, but this is one of the more "off the wall" stories! I just can't imagine that anyone with even the slightest level of interest in the pistols would not want to keep each pistol together with the holster/spare mag that came together with the pistol as a vet bring-back.

Again, nice find and thanks for sharing it with us!

[rajko84]

Rajko:

Yes - thanks for posting your latest find . . . good stuff!

So, do I understand correctly that all of the holsters had pistols in them . . . for a total of 12+/- pistols? The vet's family, however kept all but 2 pistols, less the holsters and spare mags?

I've seen and/or heard of some crazy stuff (including damage to artifacts) done by vet's families, but this is one of the more "off the wall" stories! I just can't imagine that anyone with even the slightest level of interest in the pistols would not want to keep each pistol together with the holster/spare mag that came together with the pistol as a vet bring-back.

Again, nice find and thanks for sharing it with us!

Alan,
What is crazy this is second time I bought grouping like this with holsters and spare mags. Family also kept the pistols in that case too, and that time I did not buy any pistols. Those pistols were matching mags, which I tried to explain them that I would like to buy those pistols, but they said no. This time I had a chance to check all of the guns before they separated them so I made sure non of them were double matching mags. Most of the other p38’s were 43-44 years, and rest of Lugers were two 37’s, 40,Commerical, ... so I picked the most interesting ones out of the group.
Their answer was they do not need holsters because they will not carry them like that
They are not collectors that is for sure.

[rajko84]

Rajko:

Yes - thanks for posting your latest find . . . good stuff!

So, do I understand correctly that all of the holsters had pistols in them . . . for a total of 12+/- pistols? The vet's family, however kept all but 2 pistols, less the holsters and spare mags?

Yes all holsters had pistols in them.

[ValhallaMilitaria]

That is a frustrating situation there and now the pistols will forever be missing the original holsters that managed to stay with them for 70 plus years, what a shame.
I guess this is why we see so many holsters for sale without the pistols. I've always wondered why vets would just bring back empty holsters. I guess they mostly didn't, just morons ruining history because they are ignorant of it.

[whatthecrunchyo]

What a nice find! Congrats.

[Mauser888]

Stuff like that never happens to me! You should go out and buy a Lottery ticket!

[TerryK]

Dealers do it all the time, splitting them up. More money for the holster, extra mag and pistol when sold sep.

[Willi Z.]

Great score! Too bad on the holsters being separated from the pistols.

[giorg69]

it's an ac40 date added...quite rare

[rajko84]

I have questions with few of this holsters, I never saw them before.

[rajko84]

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