No it's not ''one of the Walthers'' either, The Walther Armépistole (AP) was certainly a hammerless job, but replaced with the HP - Heeres Pistole. Which was the real predecessor of the P.38 -jtemple507 wrote:It has to be one of the Walthers then, but there's three variants that are generally similar. It doesn't look like the hammer is exposed, so it is probably the Walther AP, basically the prototype of the Walther P38.
Sorry for my late confirmation.....Yes, it's a Mauser 1907 prototype. Probably they tried to build something resembling the Luger..?broadsword1986 wrote:A mauser model 1907?
Add the fact that it was a water cooled weapon, it probably would've been too bulky for one man to carry, a fact not helped by the fact that it was water cooled.peeved wrote:Austria-Hungary indeed is the correct answer. This weapon, the invention of a Standschütze Hellriegel, was called a machine gun in 1915 although it appears to have chambered a pistol cartridge. Here are the whole 1st and 2nd picture plus a 3rd one featuring a mag bearer.
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Markus