Walther GEORG VON STAVENHAGEN WALTHER P 38 S 9mm Semi Auto

GEORG VON STAVENHAGEN WALTHER P 38 MOD. S 9mm

Rare Collectors Firearm. Guaranteed Eligible For Section 7.3

Serial Number 10

Steel Frame

Only a handful of these pistols were produced by the inventor of the Von Stavenhagen sight.

In the early 1960s, near the end of his photography career, Georg Von Stavenhagen turned his attention back to his grandfather’s roots with firearms. His eye for photography combined with his love of things mechanical, and on January 29, 1962 he filed a patent with the US Patent and Trademark Office for a new type of high-contrast sighting device for firearms.

These pistols were not made by the Walther factory either, but by gunsmiths named Georg von Stavenhagen (died in 1978), Jürgen Ruhmann (died in 2014) and K. Grubert – as the “tuned” version of the standard P.38 pistol. Walther only provided five pistols as samples. These gunsmiths used parts from cannibalized P.38 or P38 pistols or newly manufactured parts from Walther/Ulm.

Characteristics: most pistols with modifications

· modified sights, hammer spur, barrel, magazine release and safety lever

· tuned and reworked trigger

· trigger stop

· wooden grips

· some pistols with differing model designations on slide: “P38 S” (without Walther address and banner)

· some pistols with a massive backstrap (similar to the Walther P5)"

Dieter H. Marschall