Home of one of eight original Walther P38s with Serial. Walther P.38. For any make or model the rarest guns available are the number 1 serial numbers. May 30, 2011 Hello! I just acquired a Spreewerke P.38, with 'cvq' code, no date. The serial number is 3975 n. According to LTC Joel Johnston, (Ret). CYQ very early gun serial number 21. Three CYQ b prefix 6th variation with consecutive serial numbers b10, b12, b13.

A few months ago, I was watching P38's on Gunbroker and doing the usual research that I do prior to buying a surplus weapon. My collection tends to be intentionally eclectic. An Enfield Number 2 Revolver made by a Scotish auto manufacturer, IBM M1 Carbine, etc.

In my research I learned about Spreewerk and the 'CYQ/CVQ broken die controversy'. So when the owner of my local gun shop said he had a P38 he wanted me to look at AND it turned out to be a Spreewerk CVQ. I quickly snatched it up. Sometime in January of 1945, Speewerk switched from CYQ to CVQ as a manufacturer. There has always been a controversy did they switch codes or did the stamping die break causing the 'Y' to look like a 'V'. What I think makes my P38 interesting is that although the serial numbers on all the parts match, it has CVQ stamped in the slide and CYQ on the barrel.

Although, it fits and functions well.it definitely shows the character typical of Spreewerk's haste to manufacture and unskilled labor. Here are some pictures of my February 1945 Spreewerk manufactured P38. Have you been to. Look at the Spreeworks section. Manual Usuario Audi A3 Sportback 2011 more. He shows the Late cvq guns.

I would e-mail and see what he says. In 'Pistols of the World' by Ian Hogg and John Weeks, they state that 'In the final months of 1943, another contract was given, this time to Spreewerk GmbH of Berlin, thier code groups being cyq and cvq. Where To Download Dtxmania Songs on this page. ' Walther was ac, mauser was byf,Because a coding system was ordered by the German Army Weapons office in 1939 to prevent anyone from knowing where the weapons were made, denying the enemies any useful economic intelligence! At first it was numeric,(Walther's Zella Mehlis factory was 480) then changed in 1940 to alphabetic.

In 1945 the Mauser Code was changed to `svw`. Click to expand.I did read it.Looks convincing.But one thing he didnt consider in his report. What if it was done Intentionally??? Whatsapp For Maemo N900 Download here. Towards the End of the war when Intelligence was starting to give the allies Targets, the weapons plants, Ball bearing Factories, And research facilities were prime Targets. Germans were some of the finest craftsmen in the world and I find it hard to believe they would use a Broken Die after the Y broke.UNLESS they turned it into a V on purpose as a possible Intel countermeasure. The tail of the Y was the thickest part of the die charachter, and it should have been the strongest.

If it did fracture, it was the straightest fractures of a hardened die I have ever seen, unless they ground it that way after it fractured. I have never seen another example of a situation like this of any German stamps or weapon marks that werent Intentional. It makes a person wonder.and makes for a good discussion! (My Dad was there fighting over Germany and during the pilot briefings, they were shown aerial Pictures and targets they were supposed to shoot up with incendiary ammo, including trains, petroleum tanks, aircraft and bomb factories.The Resistance Network had the stuff pinpointed for the allies. They also were told to shoot every Motorcycle /sidecar they saw because those were the guys carrying the German Intel from the front lines to the Headquarters.). Click to expand.I had been watching them for a while.