1939 Mause Luger Code 42 SA Rig

1939 Mauser Code 42 SA Rig SOLD

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This is a 1939 Chamber dated Mauser 42 Code built for the German army. This Parabellum is 9mm with a 4" (100mm) barrel that is proofed and serial numbered to the gun. Serial number placement is in the military ("exposed") style. The thumb safety is marked "Gesichert" and extractor "Geladen." This example has all matching numbers. This is all matching with 2 matching magazines and a 1939 SA (Storm Troopers) holster belt, shoulder strap and SA belt buckle. (978)

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The term *Sturmabteilung* (SA) predates the founding of the Nazi Party in 1919. It originally comes from the specialized assault troops used by Germany in World War I utilizing Hutier infiltration tactics. Instead of a large mass assault, the *Sturmabteilung* was organized into small squads of a few soldiers each. The first official German storm troop unit was authorized on 2 March 1915; German high command ordered the VIII Corps to form a detachment for the testing of experimental weapons and the development of appropriate tactics that could break the deadlock on the Western Front.

On 4 November 1921 the Nazi party held a large public meeting in the Munich Hofbräuhaus. After Hitler had spoken for some time the meeting erupted into a melee in which a small company of SA distinguished itself by thrashing the opposition. The Nazis called this event "Saalschlacht" (meeting hall battle) and it assumed legendary proportions in SA lore with the passage of time. Thereafter, the group was officially known as the *Sturmabteilung*

After Hitler took power in 1933, the SA became increasingly eager for power and saw themselves as the replacement for the German army, then limited by law to no more than 100,000 men. This angered the regular army (Reichswehr), which already resented the Nazis. It also led to tension with other leaders within the party, who saw Röhm's increasingly powerful SA as a threat to their own personal ambitions. Originally an adjunct to the SA, the Schutzstaffel (SS) was placed under the direct control of Heinrich Himmler in part to restrict the power of the SA and their leaders. Although some of these conflicts were based on personal rivalries, there were also key socioeconomic conflicts between the SS and SA. SS members generally came from the middle class, while the SA had its base among the unemployed and working class. Politically speaking, the SA were more radical than the SS, with its leaders arguing the Nazi revolution had not ended when Hitler achieved power, but rather needed to implement socialism in Germany .


The extractor is marked "GELADEN". The bore is good with distinctive lands and groove. The thumb safety is new style, and blued. The thumb safety is marked 'Gesichert' and safe is down. This is very nice battlefield bring back with a short sear, type II magazine and stock lug.
	SA leather is usually brown to match the Brown Shirt of the "Walking About" uniform.

This is a standard 1934 Model gun designated by collectors as the '1942 "42" Mauser. This Luger has all matching numbers. The finish is very good and this model has a hold open latch and stock lug. The first toggle link is marked with the 42 Mauser code. There is the "V" rear sight on the rear toggle link and the last two digits of the serial number appear. This is a basic collector gun the matching numbers.

Ernst Rohm was commander of the Bavarian Freikorps and was given the nickname "The Machine Gun King of Bavaria", since he was responsible for storing and issuing illegal machine guns to the Bavarian Freikorps units. He later became commander of the SA.	President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Hitler Chancellor on January 30, 1933. As chancellor, Hitler did not command the army, which remained under the formal leadership of Hindenburg, a highly respected veteran field marshal. To a lesser extent, the Sturmabteilung (SA), a Nazi paramilitary organization, remained somewhat autonomous within the party itself. The SA evolved out of the remnants of the Freikorps movement of the post-World War I years. The Freikorps were nationalistic organizations primarily composed of disaffected, disenchanted, and angry German combat veterans who believed that their government had betrayed Germany and sold them out by surrendering and submitting to the humiliating terms of the Versailles Treaty when their army had not yet been defeated. The Freikorps were in opposition to the new Weimar Republic.
	Hitler meeting for a beer with his early followers, although he abstained from alcohol the beer hall was the gathering place for most political activity in the early 1930's. This was the early symbol of the SA which was kept through the war by the "true believers" but was not an "Official Symbol" once Hitler eliminated Röhm during the night of the Long Knives
Hitler's appointment as chancellor, followed by the suppression of all political parties except the Nazis, did not end the violence of the storm troopers. Deprived of Communist party meetings to disrupt, the storm troopers would sometimes run riot in the streets after a night of drinking. They would attack passers-by, and then attack the police who were called to stop them. Complaints of "overbearing and loutish" behavior by storm troopers became common by the middle of 1933. The Foreign Office even complained of instances where brown shirts manhandled foreign diplomats
Hitler and his supporters to eliminate Röhm's power of the SA		Despite his earlier agreement with Hitler, Röhm still clung to his vision of a new German army with the SA at its core. By early 1934, this vision directly conflicted with Hitler's plan to consolidate power and expand the Reichswehr. Röhm's success could only come at Hitler's expense. Moreover it wasn't just the Reichswehr that viewed the SA as a threat. Several of Hitler's lieutenants including Prussian premier Hermann Göring, Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, SS Chief Heinrich Himmler, and Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess, positioning themselves against Röhm. As a result, a political struggle within the party grew, with those closest to Hitler,
No one in the SA spoke more loudly for "a continuation of the German revolution", as one prominent stormtrooper put it, than Röhm. Röhm, as one of the earliest members of the Nazi Party, had participated in the Munich Beer Hall Putsch, an attempt by Hitler to seize power by force in 1923. A combat veteran of World War I, Röhm had recently boasted that he would execute 12 men in retaliation for the killing of any storm trooper. Röhm saw violence as a means to political ends. He took seriously the socialist promise of National Socialism, and demanded that Hitler and the other party leaders initiate wide-ranging socialist reform in Germany.



Here we can see the early Mauser Eagle 63 proofs with the drooped wings and the early Waffenamt (Ordinance) drooped wing acceptance stamp. Here you can see the many places where the serial number has been placed to identify all the machined parts of these Lugers. It is truly inspiring to find proofs and serial numbers wherever you look indicating the craftsmanship these guns possess.

This is a very clean gun with an excellent barrel and all matching including the magazine.

The back side of the holster was died black but the stitching was still while which probably means the leather was died before the application of the other parts. It is curious to note the upside down Waffenamt stamp next to the 1939 date.

It is very difficult to find an all matching serial numbered gun and a matching magazine. This is a premium rig for the serious collector who demands the best in collectable Lugers.


The SA Sturmabteilung belt buckle was the style from 1929-1936 and is highly desirable by collectors by itself. The two matching magazines is very unusual but this weapon may have not have seen any front line service and spent a lot of its life in parades.
This is the first clasp that we have seen in 35 years that has the Swastika on the chest strap buckle. Very unique and attests to the fanaticism of the SA trooper.

	Hitler wearing the early SA Belt Buckle with his Brown Shirt Uniform

At about 4:30 on the morning of June 30, 1934, Hitler and his entourage flew into Munich. From the airport they drove to the Bavarian Interior Ministry, where they assembled the leaders of an SA rampage that had taken place in city streets the night before. Enraged, Hitler tore the epaulets off the shirt of *Obergruppenführer* Schneidhuber, the chief of the Munich police, for failing to keep order in the city on the previous night. He shouted at him that he would be shot. As the storm troopers were hustled off to prison, Hitler assembled a large group of SS and regular police, and departed for the Hanselbauer Hotel in Bad Wiessee, where Ernst Röhm and his followers were staying. At Bad Wiessee, Hitler personally placed Röhm and other high-ranking SA leaders under arrest. According to Erich Kempka, one of the men present during the raid, Hitler turned Röhm over to "two detectives holding pistols with the safety catch removed", and the SS found Breslau SA leader Edmund Heines in bed with a (male) unidentified eighteen-year-old SA senior troop leader. Both Heines and his partner were shot on the spot in the hotel grounds on the personal order of Hitler. Meanwhile, the SS arrested a number of SA leaders as they departed their train for a planned meeting with Röhm.

Röhm was held briefly at Stadelheim Prisonin Munich, while Hitler considered his fate. In the end, Hitler decided that Röhm had to die. On July 2, at Hitler's behest, Theodor Eicke, later the commandant of the Dachau concentration camp, and SS Officer Michel Lippert visited Röhm. Once inside Röhm's cell, they handed him a loaded Browning pistol, and told him that he had ten minutes to kill himself, or else they would do it for him. Röhm demurred, telling them, "If I am to be killed, let Adolf do it himself." Having heard nothing in the allotted time, they returned to Röhm's cell to find him standing, with his bare chest puffed out in a gesture of defiance. Lippert immediately shot him dead at point-blank range. From that point on the SS provided all of Hitler's security.


This Luger has been cared for over 72 years now. It is looking for a good home. In 1932 the Reichswehrministerium issued an order that the rear connecting pin be serial numbered to the gun. You can also see a fine examples of the fire-blued pin. (Above) (Below) you can see the craftsmanship present in the machined parts, all serial number, all matching. the Eagle 655 proof is on the right side and on the left top of the barrel. The German Acceptance Swastika is on the barrel and breach block.

The most distinctive feature of these pistols is undoubtedly the toggle-lock mechanism, which holds the breech closed by locking in a manner not unlike the human knee, which can sustain a heavy weight when straight, but once bent is quite easy to continue to bend. The toggle joint in its straight position resists the rearward force of the detonating cartridge, then "buckles" after enough time has passed. When a round is fired the entire breech, barrel and toggle move straight rearward (on rails) until the toggle begins to ride up on a pair of cams that "breaks" the toggle (makes it bend at the joint). Once the toggle joint is no longer straight, it bends freely, allowing the bolt to come rearward, and the striker to be cocked. The spent cartridge is extracted by a combination extractor/loaded chamber indicator on the top of the toggle, is ejected as the toggle nears the end of its rearward Free Travel Info, and a new round is stripped from the magazine and chambered as the toggle is driven back to the straight position by a spring.

The change from S/42 to just Code 42 occurred in 1939 and with a total of 85,500 Lugers produced that year that number of 1939 Code 42 are not plentiful making them exceptionally sought after by the collector. From the 1939 production the Luftwaffe procured 40,251 nearly half the production. The German Navy (Kriegsmarine) procured 400. These are found with the E63 proofs, and the latter Eagle 655 of which this gun is proofed included the E655 Proofed loading tool.

This 1939 Mauser 42 Code battlefield pickup is an all matching P08, with two matching magazines. The small parts are hot salt blued, the rear frame has the 2mm Mauser hump. This 1939 Parabellum comes with a 1939 Brown holster, a period belt, swastika belt loops and a and is a great gun for any collection. Any questions to josef@phoenixinvestmentarms.com . This Luger is offered for $3,895.00. over-the-counter

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