GUN FALL 2015
The live portion of this session begins on Monday, October 5, 2015.
VERY RARE LOEWE PRE-PRODUCTION BORCHARDT PISTOL SN 17. LOEWE PRE-PRODUCTION BROCHARDT 17 .30 Cal. .30 Borchardt. Pre-production or extremely early production Loewe Borchardt. Standard features include a 7-1/2" bbl and the usual "Ludw. Loewe & Co./Berlin/1893" marking address above chamber. "D.R.P./No 758537." on center toggle link. The interesting area centers about the pivoting sear whose forward arm extends in an unprotected manner above the plane of the receiver; the rearward arm is secured by a screwed-in flat spring. In later guns, the screw fixation was eliminated in favor of a recessed insertion. The full SN appears under the bbl, on the mainspring housing stock lug and on the bottom of the frame. Wide bordered, checkered walnut grips. Proper non-matching wood bottom magazine numbered "8". This gun is featured on pgs. 113, 115, 116, 121, 137, 138 of The Borchardt & Luger Automatic Pistols by Joachim Gortz & Dr. Geoffrey Sturgess. PROVENANCE: Collection of Dr. Geoffrey Sturgess. CONDITION: Very fine retaining 95% orig blue with minor wear, scratches and light dings. Straw is 70% on the sear and has faded to a dull grey on toggle latch. Trigger has 50% fire blue and each of the cover plates & grip screws have approx 80% fire blue. Grips have light wear with visible grain. Mirror bore with minimal wear. Excellent magazine with small dings on base. Perfect manual mechanics. 43475-71 BWS (20,000-30,000)