CZ-52 Pistol

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The CZ-52 pistol came out of the factory with quality grade marks. On the top of the slide there is a thin rib, on that rib you will see small dimples. The dimples are from the factory and grade the quality of the gun. 1 to 2 dimples is your excellent and very good grade, any more and your quality goes down. Guns with NO dimples are Usually bad guns with the dimples ground or polished off. if you dont see the marks, dont buy it!

Those dimples represent how many times it's been restored.
You may want to have less faith in more dimples overall, but there is really no telling what "restored" means. It could be anything from a good cleaning and refinishing to a gun that got rolled over by a tank on pavement that was pieced together with replacement parts.

Almost every CZ-52 should have at least 1 dimple. That likely means that it was just cleaned up before being sold to the US. 2 dimples can mean that it was a side-arm with nothing wrong with it that was re-arsonaled after decommission and then checked once again (dimple 2) before moving to the US. 3 dimples, that's when we start getting in to the world where all kinds of things could have happened, but the same is possible with 2 dimpled guns, just very unlikely. 1 dimple generally means that the gun never saw service and came to the US in mint or nearly mint condition.