Product Details
* ROTH-SAUER,
A SCARCE 7.65mm (ROTH-SAUER) 'L.P.' MARKED SEMI-AUTOMATIC PISTOL MODEL '1906', serial no. C435,
circa 1908, with unique 'long-recoil' 4in. sliding barrel and bolt, blued barrel shroud and receiver , the top-flat signed 'J.P. SAUER & SOHN, SUHL, the receiver bridge marked 'PATENT ROTH' and 'Sauer' trademark behind charger bridge, removable side-plate to frame stamped with a crown over the letter 'R', internal magazine, chequered hard-rubber grips with 'Sauer' trademark (chipped and cracked), the back-strap stamped 'L.P.199', the whole retaining much original mirror-blued finish and colour-hardened ancilliaries
Provenance: only 301 such pistols were issued to the 'Landes Politzei' in South Africa between 1908 and 1909, being replaced by the P08 Luger pistol (see Lot 1068 in this sale)
Estimate £800-1,200