Small piece of metal on the left side of the frame, about 4 mm long, that is folded over into the path of the cartridge rim when Spring, a side mounted extractor, and a chequered bayonet-style bushing at the front that secures the slide. The basic design features an internal hammer, a fixed barrel with concentric recoil The Model 2 was available in two variants. Internally and externally the two guns are nearly identical. Sometime in the middle of World War I Walther made some cosmetic changes to the Model 2 and renamed it the Model 5. I’m not certain about these dates, but we can certainly say that Manufactured from 1913 through part of 1915, followed by the Model 5 which was likely produced from 1915 through 1923. The patentĪpplication for the method of retaining the slide was not filed until 22 October 1911, and the patent for the automatic sight was not made until 8 January 1913. However, the 1911 ALFA Catalogue of Arms and the Outdoors lists only the Model 1. It was replaced with the simpler Walther Model 2, which was smaller and less top-heavy than its predecessor.Ī number of sources have maintained that production of the Model 2 began in 1909. Alternatively Christie's can release the lot to your nominated Registered Firearms Dealer.The Walther Model 1, while relatively successful, had a complicated takedown procedure and small parts that were liable UK Bidders: please note that, if successful, you will be required to collect this lot in person from Christie's and present an identification document proving you are at least 18 years of age. should have been removed by airbrushing during the designing of the actual poster - in practice. In theory.the long barrel of the air-pistol. It was decided.that - without telling Sean or the other representatives of United Artists - we would use my pistol for the pictures and presumed that should anyone have doubts on their seeing the name Walther on the gun, they would be reassured. By chance the photographer practised air pistol target shooting as a hobby and had the gun he used for this purpose, also a Walther, at the studio. He explains further that when Connery arrived at his studio for the shoot, it was discovered by publicist Tom Carlile that no one had brought the gun needed for the shoot, the synonymous small Walther automatic. it was decided that for the main image in the poster and advertising campaign what was required was a strong portrait of Sean Connery as Bond 007, with his Walther pistol. The original vendor, who was commissioned to shoot the images required for the publicity campaign for the second Bond film From Russia With Love, explains in his accompanying letter that.

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