Unknown Semi-Auto Pistol

hawkflyer

December 04, 2002 18:55

I have a semi-auto pistol that I can't find information on. I did find a close unit match at auction 6313812 which is a Baretta Brevettata Gardone. It doesn't quite match. My pistol has markings on the left side slide "7.65 COURT 9 COUPS "UNIQUE"", "MANUFACTURE D'ARMES DES PYPENTFS NFNDAYE" (some of these markings are worn and not quite sure of some of the letters). The grips has "7.65 m/m 9 SCHUSS" on both sides. Does anybody know about the pistol the orign and the approximate value.

MDK

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  Rafter-S

  December 04, 2002 19:05

  Sounds like one of the many thousands of 32 ACP pistols that were manufactured in Europe the first half of the 20th century. The markings sound French or Spanish.
  
  Most of those guns don't have much collector value unless it was owned by a famous person...and could be documented as such. And with most of the old pistols, the grips and magazines are extremely difficult to replace. So don't break a grip or lose the magazine.
  
  Respectfully,
  Rafter-S
  
  "What is truth? No wonder jesting Pilate turned away. The truth, it has a thousand faces -- show only one of them, and the whole truth flies away! But how to show the whole? That is the question."
  --Thomas Wolfe, "You Can't Go Home Again" (1934)

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  rufe-snow

  December 04, 2002 20:39

  quote:
  I have a semi-auto pistol that I can't find information on. I did find a close unit match at auction 6313812 which is a Baretta Brevettata Gardone. It doesn't quite match. My pistol has markings on the left side slide "7.65 COURT 9 COUPS "UNIQUE"", "MANUFACTURE D'ARMES DES PYPENTFS NFNDAYE" (some of these markings are worn and not quite sure of some of the letters). The grips has "7.65 m/m 9 SCHUSS" on both sides. Does anybody know about the pistol the orign and the approximate value.
  
  MDK

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  rufe-snow

  December 04, 2002 20:51

  Your pistol is a Unique "KRIEGSMODEL". This is a .32 auto made in Hendaye France, during the German occupation, between 1940 & 1945. I had one years ago. They generally don't go for a lot of money unless you have one with the German Waffen Amt markings that supposedly? some were marked with.

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