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Originally Posted by digi-shots
Mike,
Sounds like you've got some interesting Victory models! 
I don't know if I can add much but... I have seen a posting of a Victory that was shipped to the Hartford Ordnance Depot that had a NZ stamping on the backstrap.
Also, I'm curious about your OSS Victory... does it have any special markings?
Thanks! |
I did get very lucky with the victorys.
The OSS has no gov markings only "Bavaria Municiple Police" stamped on it. This revolver got around for sure. It went from the OSS to Bavaria, to an American Rod and Gun club in Germany to a Capt to a Master Sgt to the family of the Master Sgt after he past away to a pawn shop in Montana to me in the middle of the mountains in Colorado.
The US Maritime victory has no gov marking either. It does have a definite color difference from any other victory I have seen.
I have a 38/200 made late in the war (3 April 45) that appears to have stayed in the US. No export markings but this one unlike the others is marked US Property G H D.
The NZ revolver looks like it went through a war or something
as the finish is really rough on it but it does shoot well.