German Capture 1911

[Marcus]

Actually, that's Adolf Hitler's personal .45 - he took it off an American paratrooper who had been air-dropped into Berlin on a secret mission to kill "Der Fuehrer". In their famous ".45 duel" at the Brandenburg Gate, Adolf drew his Norwegian made Nazi marked 1911 a split second faster, and shot the RR out of the American's hand.

Many years ago I once saw a "presentation" artillery Luger at one a local gun show that belonged to the famous "Red Baron". I know this because it had "Manfred von Richtofen" engraved on it. I wish I had bought it now, it would go well with this other historic and rare German pistol.

I also once had the chance to buy one of Jesse James' Smith and Wesson pistols. It even had his name, "Jesse James" stamped on it. Of course, some know-nothing skeptic claimed that that model didn't even come out until several years after Jesse James had been killed. This same fool also claimed that a Confederate Civil War "C.S.A." marked pistol by the same seller was fake because it was made in the 1870's. I think he was just making all this up so he could try to get those guns real cheap for his own collecti

I might add that Adolf Hitler's Nazi marked Norwegian 1911 was also chrome plated and had his name engraved on it - only very high Nazi officers and officials were allowed to carry chrome plated guns with their name on them.

[Scott Gahimer]

Never saw one before. Is it real? Common? Thanks,

The pistol is real. The marking is real, too. However, in reality, both probably have nothing to do with the pistol being captured during WWII. The engraver simply killed the value of what appears to have been a nice, collectible Remington Rand. On the bright side, it's only the slide...and there are a lot of Remington Rand parts around. With a different slide, the appearance of the pistol might be restored. However, originality cannot be restored by changing parts.

In its present state, the pistol is worth about the price of a nice Remington Rand pistol...less the slide.