West German or maybe German PP Value

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It has commercial proof marks. None which contain the swastika. We just assumed a genuine SA pistol would include that. But I think your are saying pre-war, probably not. Of course I am still trying to confirm matching serials. Because if those don't match, trying to figure out what's what is pointless.
 
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The Strum Abteilung ( NAZI BROWN SHIRTS ) started out long before the Nazi party took over control of the government. They started out around 1919. They were not a real government agency, instead they were a bunch of thugs who like to dress up in uniforms they designed themselves.
So while they had all sorts of weapons, they mostly had old military arms that they had hidden away or commercial guns they bought.

I think that the SA bought around 4,500 commercial PP pistols.
So they are not seen all that often. But the ones I have seen are in good shape because they belonged to political hacks.

Hitler took power in 1933 and by 1934 all the SA leaders were dead.
The SA was then down-sized to the point of being irrelevant .
However they did continue as an organization up into the first part of WWII.
Two SA marked PPs that I have seen serial number to 1938 as a manufacture date. So somebody was still ordering them.



There should be a crown type proof mark on the right side of the slide under the ejection port. There should be another proof mark on the chamber area of the barrel.


I just looked at one yesterday that was in slightly worse shape than the one in your photos. It went for a touch more than $2,000.

They are often faked. Ones with capture papers can bring $3,000 to $4,000
 
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I believe the SA essentially ceased to exist after July of 1934, with it's top leadership eliminated and it's power and authority falling to the SS and to the Army. If this pistol was some sort of presentation piece to some high ranking SA official then it had to be commissioned in a rather short time period as the PP was introduced in 1929 and the SA fell from power some 5 years later. Whatever else it might be (besides being a very pristine 80 year old Walther PP), it certainly is an interesting piece of history.
 
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