A Historical weapon p 38 + Nagant 48

[kfields]

Although in poor condition, I find the pistol quite interesting.
To increase its value and interest in the future, I would have the son gather all the paperwork he can about the pistol and keep it with the pistol. If there is some documentation where the original owner had to relay the story to the authorities in writing later in life as to how it was acquired, that should be included. Are there any photos taken, even after the war, with the pistol in the original owners hands, that should be gathered up. If nothing like this exists, then the son should write the complete story about the pistol and its connection to the original owner and have it witnessed and notorized to be kept with the pistol. Maybe its just me but I would also include photos of the "hiding place" in the floorboards.
Without a documented story, this is just a rusty old pistol with minimal value!

Thanks for posting about this!

Kim

[Carsten135]

hey there

well if the son of Herbert still was alive the gun was not even thought on being sold, his son rolf and my dear friend died in 2015 sadly so further and more detailed information is bye the widow of rolf and she surely know the history too, the closest to the found place is Herberts house and the adresse to that will be provided to a possible byer, but i dont think the widow will run around whit a inspection camera in private homes, the house was sold after rolfs death.

around paper and id on the gun from the NS time, well as i wrote earlier then ill ask the widow around it, but there was a reason why Herbert was hiding it, this is whit in the DDR system and if Herbert had any evidence on his gun he would have the whole STASI department crawling allover him, it was deeply illegal in this system to own a gun on private hands, all shooting/hunting was monitored public trough the GST and only whit east european weapons ( russian weapons ) nor could Herbert wear his original medals, that goes also for the 57 models too, they where illegal to wear too but not to own in private as collection.

The widow have the opinion on that this gun should be on a collectors hands and if i was a weapons collector i would already have bought it but i am not interested in weapons and dont have it in my storage, so the bedst i can offer is a direct link to the widow for a possible buyer, it will be the bedst i can help out whit. she is of course in agreement with this.

cheers