J.P. Sauer & Sohn 38H With Waffenamts

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Up Next We Have a Very Cool J.P. Sauer & Sohn 38H With Waffenamts, It is chambered in 7.65mm (.32 ACP) It comes with one Mauser Marked magazine. The pistol has minimal markings, but has various erman Waffenamts, See Pictures. More from the internet below:
German arms making company J. P. Sauer & son is one of the oldest names in European firearms industry. Sauer made first semiautomatic pistols just before WW1, and continued to make quality pocket pistols during interwar period. Since about 1932, Sauer engineers were working on an interesting trigger system, that employed concealed hammer and external cocking and decocking lever, located on the side of the gun. First patents for this system were issued in 1935, but final design was completed by 1938, when this pistol was brought to the market as Sauer 38H (H stands for hahn, or hammer in German, to distinguish this pistol from earlier Sauer designs, all of which were striker-fired). Sauer 38H pistol was used by various police and security forces in Hitler’s Germany; Wehrmacht, the German armed force, also adopted this pistol as substitute standard and ordered some 200 thousands of this pistol to be issued to officers. Pre-war Sauer 38H pistols were made to rather high standards of fit and finish; however, as the war fortune turned its back towards Germany, some cost- and time-saving efforts were made to make guns faster and cheaper. First to suffer was the external finish of guns; later on, some safety features were dropped, and pistols from late period of WW2 can be found either without a manual safety on the slide or without the cocking/decocking lever on the frame (or without either, on last-ditch pistols).
While the basic setup of the Sauer cocking/decocking lever was rather advanced even by immediate post-war standards, 38H pistol was never brought back to production after the far; the basic idea of separate, frame-mounted decocker was revived much later in HK P9s and SIG-Sauer P220 pistols.

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