Another German (?) Pistole.

[Adam Helmer]

Last week a neighbor farmer gave me a Colt M1903 hammerless .32 automatic pistol his brother took out of a house in Belgium in December 1944. The brother was in the 28th Division and entered a house formerly occupied by the Germans and found the pistol and two magazines. The farmer got the pistol in 1946, shot it occasionally and never cleaned it. Today I detail stripped the piece and found light rust throughout. The Colt has no German proofs, but it may have been pressed into German service or it may have belonged to the displaced Belgian home owner. This mystery is why I like military arms.

Adam