Description
Item Description
Bryant Ridge Co. is pleased to present this semi-automatic pistol today for a penny-start auction; this is the CZ VZ.38!
The model VZ-38 was only manufactured from 1938 to 1939, making this a more scarce and sought-after example!
SPECIFICATIONS:
Manufacturer: CZ
Model: VZ.38
Serial: 255545
Date of Manufacture: 1939
Caliber: .380 ACP
Finish: Blue
Barrel Length: 4 5/8"
Optics/Sights: Round Blade Front with V-Notch Rear
Stock/Grips: Brown Checkered Synthetic
Action: Semi-Automatic
Markings: Standard / The right side of the receiver is stamped with the CZ monogram and the Czechoslovakian military acceptance stamp and two-digit date (E7 rampant lion 39). A very small military acceptance stamp is also found on top of the slide and barrel. The right side is marked in all-capital serif characters as follows: CZESKÁ ZBROJOVKA AKC.SPOL.V PRAZE
Bryant Ridge's Analysis:
In 1936, the Czechoslovak military ordered 70,000 additional vz.24 pistols, but they were also seeking a simpler design that could be produced more cheaply and maintained more easily, and it seems likely that Myška was already working on such a design. His patent for the CZ-38 was granted on 6 November 1936 as Czechoslovakian patent number 65558. According to R. J. Berger, there is a three-quarter-size double/single-action (DA/SA) 7.65mm prototype with a 1936 date and the serial number 100001; this gun may have been used to make the patent drawings. A similar but larger prototype, with a 1937 date and the serial number 300001, is chambered for the 9mm P-08 cartridge; this gun is in the collection of the Military History Institute in Prague. It is larger and heavier than the production CZ-38, and holds nine cartridges in the magazine. According to the museum exhibit, another 9mm Parabellum prototype was made with a rotary barrel locking system and a double/single-action trigger. According to Berger, a number of other early pistols are known, all dated 1937, with either double action only (DAO) or double/single action (DA/SA) mechanisms, and all with wooden grips. Berger states that twenty-five pistols (presumably DAO) were sent to twelve different military units for evaluation in January of 1938. On 14 June 1938, the Ministry of Defense placed an order for 41,000 pistols. The price per gun was less than half the cost of the CZ-24. Germany invaded the Sudetenland (German-speaking Czechoslovakia) in September 1938, but this did not immediately affect pistol production in Strakonice. According to Skramoušský, twenty test pistols (serial numbers 250042-250061) were produced in March of 1939, but only four days after their completion, on March 14th, Germany occupied the rest of Czechoslovakia.
Model: VZ.38
Serial: 255545
Date of Manufacture: 1939
Caliber: .380 ACP
Finish: Blue
Barrel Length: 4 5/8"
Optics/Sights: Round Blade Front with V-Notch Rear
Stock/Grips: Brown Checkered Synthetic
Action: Semi-Automatic
Markings: Standard / The right side of the receiver is stamped with the CZ monogram and the Czechoslovakian military acceptance stamp and two-digit date (E7 rampant lion 39). A very small military acceptance stamp is also found on top of the slide and barrel. The right side is marked in all-capital serif characters as follows: CZESKÁ ZBROJOVKA AKC.SPOL.V PRAZE
Bryant Ridge's Analysis:
In 1936, the Czechoslovak military ordered 70,000 additional vz.24 pistols, but they were also seeking a simpler design that could be produced more cheaply and maintained more easily, and it seems likely that Myška was already working on such a design. His patent for the CZ-38 was granted on 6 November 1936 as Czechoslovakian patent number 65558. According to R. J. Berger, there is a three-quarter-size double/single-action (DA/SA) 7.65mm prototype with a 1936 date and the serial number 100001; this gun may have been used to make the patent drawings. A similar but larger prototype, with a 1937 date and the serial number 300001, is chambered for the 9mm P-08 cartridge; this gun is in the collection of the Military History Institute in Prague. It is larger and heavier than the production CZ-38, and holds nine cartridges in the magazine. According to the museum exhibit, another 9mm Parabellum prototype was made with a rotary barrel locking system and a double/single-action trigger. According to Berger, a number of other early pistols are known, all dated 1937, with either double action only (DAO) or double/single action (DA/SA) mechanisms, and all with wooden grips. Berger states that twenty-five pistols (presumably DAO) were sent to twelve different military units for evaluation in January of 1938. On 14 June 1938, the Ministry of Defense placed an order for 41,000 pistols. The price per gun was less than half the cost of the CZ-24. Germany invaded the Sudetenland (German-speaking Czechoslovakia) in September 1938, but this did not immediately affect pistol production in Strakonice. According to Skramoušský, twenty test pistols (serial numbers 250042-250061) were produced in March of 1939, but only four days after their completion, on March 14th, Germany occupied the rest of Czechoslovakia.
Since the factory was already tooled up, the Germans allowed the order for 41,000 pistols to be completed. They were manufactured between September and December of 1939, with serial numbers, presumably, from 250062 into the 291000 range. Further production of the CZ-38 was halted in favor of the CZ-27, at least until near the end of the war. The serial number is stamped on the left side of the frame and slide, at the front, and on the inside of the sideplate. The right side of the receiver is stamped with the CZ monogram and the Czechoslovakian military acceptance stamp and two-digit date (E7 rampant lion 39). A very small military acceptance stamp is also found on top of the slide and barrel. The right side is marked in all-capital serif characters as follows: CZESKÁ ZBROJOVKA AKC.SPOL.V PRAZE
Return Policy:
We gladly offer a 3 day unfired inspection policy from the time that the firearm is delivered to your FFL. Refunds are available for all qualifying orders.
Return Policy:
We gladly offer a 3 day unfired inspection policy from the time that the firearm is delivered to your FFL. Refunds are available for all qualifying orders.
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Return Policy
We gladly offer a 3 day unfired inspection policy from the time that the firearm is delivered to your FFL. Refunds are available for all qualifying orders.
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