barrel length 20 cm (8"), weight 1 kg, year of manufacture 1917, obsolete German proof, condition externally III.
DWM monogram on breech, Gothic acceptance letters and Prussian proof eagle on the right, matching numbers as far as can be seen except for the magazine, the firing pin including spring and tumbler/grip are missing, therefore not shootable without these small parts, (apart from this condition III), no valid proof.
Even before the First World War, the "long pistol 08" was introduced for the German field artillery with a 20 cm long barrel and curve sight up to 800 m. With a shoulder stock it could be used carbine-like for close defense of the firing position. In World War I it was also used as an effective weapon in trench warfare with a 32-round drum magazine.
The company Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionsfabriken AG in Berlin and Karlsruhe was one of the most important companies for the production of handguns and handguns and ammunition worldwide from about 1900 until 1918. Rifles of the Mauser 98 system were exported mainly to Latin America and the development of the Parabellum pistol by the Austrian Georg Luger took place at DWM in Berlin.

Category: Pistols