After five years of war and 60+ more years of use or abuse, most are not in pristine condition. Produced for a little over a month in 1940 in a quantity of about 2500, the ac no-date is one of the harder variations to find, especially in a condition that collectors desire. Production began at the Zella-Mehlis, Thuringia, Germany plant in 1939, and deployment of the Walther P38 pistols as the new standard German Army service pistols began in mid 1940. Peter Chen ww2dbase The Walther P38 semi-automatic pistols were accepted by the German Army in 1938, thus the designation of P38, but prototype testing did not start until late 1939. Walther: The zero-serie The 0-Series was the first official P38 variation issued to the German. Info Discussion in 'The Powder Keg' started by ingous, Aug 11, 2008. Post-war P38 serial number versus date production chart. The serial numbers on the P.38s only reached the 4-digit range after the three-digit range was completed. ![]() No forced matching serial numbers, no mismatched parts, no Russian. ![]() With the supply of surplus Walther P38's down to 'hundreds' overseas, now may be the very last opportunity to buy a pristine example of this World War II classic firearm. ![]() These German P38 Pistols are all original, matching numbers, all markings intact, and were imported by us directly from a private collector in Germany.
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