Absolut
Senior Member
Usually not this into handguns, but by pure accident stumbled on this one. I'm not sure the seller realized at all the magazines were matching, I think he didn't, because he initially offered me to buy it without holster and spare mag, but I said I'd take the whole set, despite the holster has had the swivels at the rear cut off .. well, here is my first P.38 with both matching numbered magazines, an early ac42 from the a block. Initially I was a bit distracted by the fact that I remembered some have the serial number on the magazine body and not on the floorplate, but it looked so convincing that I thought that there may had been a change. Actually then later realized at home that not only they moved the numbering placement, but also stopped adding the + to the spare mag. Is there any rule as to when the numbering moved from the body to the floorplate, and was that also connected with leaving out the + for the spare magazine?
