Deactivated with a working action it can be cocked, stripped and dry fired. The original Mauser HSc featured a nice blue finish and nicely turned out walnut grips. ![]() The serial number range began where the Mauser 1914/1934 pistol left off. Best guesses are that a quarter of a million pistols were produced, with the figure 252,000 often quoted. ![]() The overall condition is superb with deep crisp even bluing and lovely undamaged matched wooden grips. Serial numbers began at 700001 and ran to almost 952000. Definitely worthy of some further research. We can only assume that for some reason this pistol wasn't numbered in the normal manor and may have possible been part of a special batch or limited production run during WWII. It does however have the numbers 135 on the barrel and on the underside of the slide, not where you'd normally find them. However, it has no obvious serial number stamped forward facing at the base of pistol grip where it is normally positioned, and its clearly never had a number there. Clearly visible are the Nazi Waffen code, Eagle over 135, with nitro proof eagles over N on slide and frame and the correct Mauser legend and address on the slide. All the markings indicate that it is a Second World War production pistol. ![]() A very unusual and intriguing Nazi marked Mauser HSc pistol.
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