Very interesting gun. I know not many 'liberated' guns found their way to the U.K., as British troops were banned from bringing any back. They did however make quite a bit of cash selling them to the Yanks. Luger pistols would always fetch a premium and sell for many times a Squaddies monthly wage. Lagopus.....
My Dad was offered Lugers and Walther P38s, unissued, by a GI In Paris in 1945.
He had a bagful of them; apparently they had found a German supply truck in a ditch.
IIRC, P38s were $15, Lugers were $25. Dad didn’t buy.
He could have brought his 1911 sidearm back for $7; he passed on it.
