Some 1913s will also be seen with the name and address in English, presumably on guns intended for export. The cartridge designation was stamped on the right, rear of the slide and the word “PATENT” on the left. Usual 1913s were marked on the top of their slides with Sauer & Sohn’s name and city of origin, along with a small image of the company’s logo of a wild man with a club. Considered insufficient, a sear-blocking arrangement was added to later variants. Early versions had a magazine-safety button that locked their mechanisms when the magazines were removed this feature was soon considered to be superfluous and was eliminated.Ī traditional-style safety catch was mounted on the left side of the frame just behind the trigger. The magazine was secured by a heel catch, which was pushed forward to release it. The gun was striker-fired, the striker spring being held in position by a projection on the inside, center of the cocking knob. This allowed the breechblock to be extracted and the slide removed forward off the frame. To access the works, a large textured cocking knob, secured initially by a small detent and later by the pistol’s spring-loaded rear sight, was unscrewed. The slide contained a clever separate firing mechanism. It possessed a fixed barrel around which was coiled the gun’s recoil spring. 32 ACP, seven-shot blowback, designed by Heinz Zehner, was sturdy and compact. That distinction would have to wait almost 10 years when the company came out with the first semi-automatic pistol devised and produced solely by Sauer & Sohn-the Selbstlade-Pistole Modell 1913. This handgun, however, did not bear the Sauer imprimatur, and though the guns were marked with Sauer & Sohn’s name, they were not a Sauer design. The firm has produced all manner of firearms, including self-loading pistols starting around 1905, beginning with the 7.65 mm Browning-chambered (.32 ACP) Roth-Sauer repeater. Sauer & Sohn of Suhl is the oldest firearm manufacturer in Germany, having been founded in 1751. The Model HSc is an exceptionally fine pocket pistol.J.P.
pistols, being small, compact, and reliable, were desirable as light side arms. Not only did the military forces take over all of the HSc pistols produced, but also the last 100,000 or so of the 1934 type, consequently many specimens of the latter will also have the German military acceptance mark. Hence almost every specimen seen will have the German military acceptance mark (WaA ). This model was produced throughout World War II as a side arm for the Army and for the Luftwaffe, and very few were distributed commercially.
#Sauer 1913 serial numbers serial numbers
From the time that it was brought out, in 1938, until 1945 serial numbers had grown to about 955,000, indicating that more than 250,000 had been made in that period. This model was designated Modell HSc, and serial numbering started around 700,000. Finally, a third form was arrived at and this was considered sufficiently perfected to warrant commercial production. As a result of recommendations and comments received, certain changes were made and a few of this revised form (known as HSb) were similarly circulated. In 1937 Mauser produced a few of the new pistols, designated HSa, and circulated samples among firearms authorities, editors, etc. This system, generally referred to as the HS system, was much delayed in its development due to patent and legal difficulties engendered by Walther's natural desire to control the production of double action pistols. About this time Mauser began work on a design for a double action pistol and by 1937 they had developed one which they designated a Hahn Selbstspann (or self-cocking hammer).
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