Dieter Marschall states that total production was about 45,000. Blasii, but in 1919 it wasĬhanged to Zella Mehlis. One clear indication that production continued at least into 1919 is that the late examples have the slideĪddress Zella-Mehlis I-the name of the town where the Walther factory was located was Zella St. Gangarosa, in The Walther Handgun Story, says they were made for four yearsīetween 19, and Dieter Marschall, in Walther Pistols: Model 1 Through P99, says they were made from 1917 through 1919, with a question. According to Rankin in Walther Volume III they were only made for twelve months in 1917. The bad news for collectors is that the Model 7 is a bit hard to come by. The backstrap has a gentle curve that tucks right into my palm. Two fingers wrap around the grip and my little finger curls beneath the I guess I have a medium-sized hand, and the gun feels quite natural to me. The Spreewerk inspection stamp consisted of an eagle above the number 88 ( E/88).I’d first seen a Model 7 in the collection of a friend, and immediately liked the way itįelt in my hand. Around 100 pistols were produced under supervision of the Russians (00-series) before production was stopped and the factory dissambled. Spreewerk produced 283.080 pistols before it was conquered by the Russians in April 1945.
WALTHER P1 FIELD STRIP CODE
Spreewerk was the thirth manufacturer who started producing P.38 pistols at the end of 1942. CYQ was used as secret code to indicate that the pistol was produced by the Spreewerk factory. The initial Mauser inspection stamp consisted of an eagle above the number 135 ( E/135) and changed at the end of 1943 to ( E/WaA135). They also marked the pistols with the code svw. However the French did not stop production, they continued production of the P.38 for their own use until 1946. The factory was conquered in april 1945 by the French. At the beginning of 1945 the secret code byf was replaced by the new secret code svw. The mauser plant produced 323.000 P38 pistols during the nazi-regime and those pistols were stamped with the secret code byf to indicate mauser as the manufacturer. The increasing demand of P38 pistols resulted in two more manufacturers in 1942, Mauser and Spreewerk. The Walther inspection stamp consisted of an eagle above the number 359 ( E/359). After approval the weapons were stamped with an inspection stamp (Waffenamt). Weapons produced had to be inspected before they were delivered to the German Army. Production was stopped when the American forces conquered the plant in April 1945. During the Nazi-regime 584.500 P38 pistols were produced by the Carl Walther plant in Zella Mehlis. This secret code was already replaced after two months with the new secret code ac. Therefore at the beginning of 1940 the pistols produced by the Walther plant were marked with the secret code 480 to indicate Walther as the manufacturer. The Germans were afraid that markings like the Walther banner would make it quit easy for the allies to determine the weapon production sites and bomb them. In 1940 the walther banner was replaced by a secret code to indicate the manufacturer. The first weapons produced for the German army were marked with the walther banner on the slide. The P38 was developed by Carl Walther in 1938.
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