[ChildOfThe60s]

Interesting. Another first for this gun is the spring loaded magazine.

[yarddog]

I have never actually seen a Borchardt. That one looks in mint condition. I wonder what the cartridge is? Probably similar the the .30 Mauser.

[gorush]

I’ve had this old .32 auto, made in 1920’s Germany since the late ‘70’s. My local gunsmith informed me that it is the very model that John Dillenger carried.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ortgies_Semi-Automatic_Pistol

[ozzymandus]

Craig Gottlieb has a very bad rep in gun circles. Last I heard he was in some grave-digging scandal in eastern Europe.

[Terry L Smith]

It is true that Georg Luger did take that desin, and end up with the P-08, or, Luger pistol. Luger ALSO was the guy who developed the 9mm Parabellum round.

Now, as far as ‘everything’ coming down the tree from the Borshact pistol ... Colt had a 1903 pocket hammerless pistol, with a 9mm Browning (.380ACP) cartridge, and then John Moses Browning’s designs, the Colt 1911 and the finished by F.N. High Power Pistol, both of which are still very present today, unlike the P-08.

[Chainmail]

Thanks!