This pistol has two magazines one with the matching mottled brown plastic, finger rest base and the second one with a postwar production 'cal 9mm' marked, black plastic finger rest base. It is fitted with the mottled, brown plastic grips with the 'WALTHER' banner on each side. It has the 90 degree safety with the loaded chamber indicator above the firing pin. The last three digits of the serial number, (192) are correctly scratched on the inside of the slide.

The right sides of the barrel, chamber area and slide have the early 'Crown/N' commercial proof. It has the standard Walther Banner slide marking followed by the two line factory address and caliber markings followed by the circled 'RZM' markings. The 'RZM' markings are found in several serial numbers ranges, during Walther PPK production, with the earliest block being 803,638-844,468, with this example falling right in the middle of this block. The Reichs Zeugmeisterei (RZM) served as the quartermasters office of the National Socialists (NSDAP) and later became the chief approving authority on many types of military weapons, clothing, textiles and some raw materials. The black leather holster bears the Albrecht Kind trademark on the lower flap, with 'Walther/P.P.K.' ink stamped in the interior.This is a fine Walther PPK pistol with the high desirable/scarce 'RZM' markings on the slide. Both of the included flat base full blue magazines are numbered to match the pistol on the spine, and individually numbered '1' and '2'. Overall finish is in the high polished commercial style, with matching external serial numbers on the slide (right side) and frame, with the standard Walther banner and factory legend on the left side of the slide, 'eagle/N' proofs on the right side of the slide, muzzle and chamber, and a set of checkered wraparound Walther banner grips.

One of the signature weapons of the political and police organs of the Nazi Party, the PPK represented the state of the art in European handguns for defensive carry. Stepan's list was developed via an extensive review of surviving documentation from the SS and subordinate organizations like the SD. Manufactured in the late 1930s/1940s, this Walther PPK pistol is recorded by serial number (page 196 of the 2012 Gold Edition) in the book 'SS Walther PP/PPK Identification and Documents' by Steven Stepan as an SS-issued pistol.

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