Completely original German WWII manufacture and in very good, complete condition.
Original red Bakelite ribbed grip panels.
Zinc-finished steel construction. Most of the finish is intact, though they have been arsenal repaired at least once, as the serial numbers on the barrel and frame do not match.
Bears the original German maker code, euh, that stands for C. u. W. Meinel-Scholer, Klingenthal in Sachsen.
Captured along with many others by the British at the end of WWII, who then supplied them to Israel, who marked them 1" in a circle over ◊û◊û 25, for 25mm (in Hebrew). There, they saw service in the Middle Eastern campaigns of the 1960s and 1970s.
Subsequently sold as surplus on the world market and imported into the United States.
This is a very hard-to-find WWII item with a fascinating history.