Welcome to at present’s Picture of the Day! Right here we now have a Walther prototype. Sure, one other Walther. This tremendous neat and intensely uncommon pistol is a Walther KPK. The KPK might look similar to the Walther PPK as a result of, properly it kind of is one. The Walther KPK was engineered towards the top of World Struggle Two with the intention that it might be issued to German troops who had been in want of a small, light-weight, and helpful pistol. This resulted in round ten examples known as the Walther KPK. It featured an aluminum body and the slide was squared off and engaged as a way to shroud and bob the hammer.
“The distinctive features of this pistol is that it makes use of a novel duraluminum body in order that it is extremely mild in weight and Walther eradicated the normal security/decocker lever on the slide in order that it has a really slim/slender profile making it simple to hide in your pocket, whereas nonetheless retaining the tried and true Walther PPK body design together with the aspect mounted journal launch button. The pistol additionally nonetheless capabilities in each the one and double motion mode. Though this pistol appears to be like like it’s a hammerless design, in truth the slide has been lengthened roughly 3/8 of an inch to easily conceal the hammer, making this a quite simple engineering design change which may have been simply included into manufacturing had the conflict not ended. As famous this tremendous uncommon pistol was a real prototype pistol that carries no serial quantity, and is marked with solely the “Walther Banner” and “KPK” markings on the left aspect of the slide, and a single “Eagle/N” Nazi Industrial proof mark over the chamber space of the barrel. The journal is a regular all blued model marked with solely, “WALTHER” inside a banner over “PPK 7,65mm” on the decrease left aspect. The slide and body have blended finishes; with the body, slide and barrel nonetheless within the authentic Walther manufacturing unit “within the white” unblued/unanodized end with the remaining small elements having an all blue end, indicating these had been simply pulled from common business manufacturing. That is in all probability one of many rarest if not the rarest authentic World Struggle II Nazi small caliber pistols in existence.”
Lot 1343: Extraordinarily Uncommon Prototype Walther Mannequin Kpk Semi-Automated Pistol –. (n.d.). Rock Island Public sale Firm. {photograph}. Retrieved September 1, 2022, from https://www.rockislandauction.com/element/60/1343/extremely-rare-prototype-walther-model-kpk-semiautomatic-pistol.
