I would greatly appreciate it if you would provide me via PM the entire serial number for our data base. I think the value Ramon provided for you is generally accurate. I would estimate the pistol returned by your relatives was made in 1935. It is very difficult to determine the history of the non-SS RZM marked pistols other than to give an approximate date of production. These weapons apparently were serially numbered after market on the slide underneath the muzzle. There is evidence that some of the RZM marked PPKs were also purchased by the Sicherheits Hauptamt of the SS for issue to members of the Sicherheitspolizei units and the SD. There were strict regulations as to which rank Political Leaders could carry their pistols with certain uniforms. The pistols were available to all Politischen Leiters at a group discount price, not just senior officials. The contract with RZM markings began in mid 1934 but the marking was removed in 1936. According to John Pearson when Walther started making production changes after 1941, the. Seems to me that the scratched numbers on PPks may have stopped sometime between K under PPK, 2086xx and K suffix PPK, 280067k. The initial large portion of this contract bore the acceptance mark of the Reichszeugmeisterei-RZM. He states that type four ( K under ) was the first to have the full factory applied seriel number to both the frame and slide. The NSDAP contracted with Waffenfabrik Walther to produce PPKs for the party organizations.
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