Is this an original Walther P38 magazine?

[Okeke]

Hello Gents

an oddment I picked up somewhere, Is this an original Walther P38 magazine?

Thanks in advance

Adrian

[BrodieBartfast]

Looks like an original mag that's seen some hard use!

Is there a WaffenAmt marking on it anywhere? That'll tell you which manufacturer produced it. They're usually stamped on the spine.

B.B.

[toot]

it has P-38 stamped on the left bottom side, so that is a good indication that it is for a P-38. so I would say yes it is. jmho.

[Okeke]

Here are pics of the hitherto unseen WaffenAmt mark...thanks for that. I'd never noticed it before.

Adrian

[Okeke]

I submitted it together with some other items to emedals.com and they rejected it as fake. So I decided to ask on this forum.

[BrodieBartfast]

Looks perfectly fine to me. I can't imagine what about it made them think it was a fake. Nobody's faking these as far as I know. There are postwar East and West German magazines out there, but those are generally pretty easy to tell apart from wartime ones.

The WaffenAmt (WaA135) indicates it's a Mauser-made magazine. It would have belonged to a 'byf'-marked pistol.

B.B.

[Okeke]

I guess they might have been stung a few times and don't trust their own judgment as to originality.

[BrodieBartfast]

I guess they might have been stung a few times and don't trust their own judgment as to originality.

With the amount of fakes out there, you can't blame them. Sometimes caution crosses the line into paranoia, though.

B.B.