Help - WW2 Fn High Power with no Serial number -

[dieselhymer]

We recently purchased a Fn high power with no visible serial number on frame,barrel, or slide. This pistol has not been tampered with and show's no sign of a serial number ever being stamped. This pistol is extremely crude - is consistent throughout - and has visible/original machine marks. There are no proof's or waffen marks outside of the Belgium stamp's. Please Help!

[HK SD9 Tactical]

We recently purchased a Fn high power with no visible serial number on frame,barrel, or slide. This pistol has not been tampered with and show's no sign of a serial number ever being stamped. This pistol is extremely crude - is consistent throughout - and has visible/original machine marks. There are no proof's or waffen marks outside of the Belgium stamp's. Please Help!

Welcome to FNForum. Pictures are worth a thousand words.

[SONYtec]

Welcome!!!

Yes, photo's will help.

[jhs27275]

We recently purchased a Fn high power with no visible serial number on frame,barrel, or slide. This pistol has not been tampered with and show's no sign of a serial number ever being stamped. This pistol is extremely crude - is consistent throughout - and has visible/original machine marks. There are no proof's or waffen marks outside of the Belgium stamp's. Please Help!

That sounds like a pistol that was liberated from the factory before being completed either in parts or as a whole gun.

[artranscience]

This is not very well known, but firearms were not required to have SNs until the Gun Control Act of 1968, although individual manufacturers were free to assign SNs on their own. It simply wasn't required by law pre-68.

[jhs27275]

This is not very well known, but firearms were not required to have SNs until the Gun Control Act of 1968, although individual manufacturers were free to assign SNs on their own. It simply wasn't required by law pre-68.

That is a US thing. I have seen a few early HP's and they all had serial numbers.

The HP was first brought to the US market in 1954 and from that date to this, they all have serial numbers.

[jhs27275]

Oh, and the 1954 serial number range starts around serial number 70,000.

[SONYtec]

I remember hearing somewhere the Germans were known to use a serial number several times, to make it look like they didn't have as many rifles as they really had.

I don't know how true that is.

[P35p]

I believe the person that started this thread sold the weapon and I purchased it. I have talked with several people and only found one person that knew anything about these. Seems after the plant was liberated that there were some left over parts in the plant. Workers assembled the parts and were selling them to GI's for as little as $5. I know when compared to my late 1944 German proofed b series it is very similar. Brown bakelite grips, no magazine safety and the barrel still has one WaA140 proof on the left lower leg.



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And here it is beside my 1944

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[jhs27275]

Thanks for the photos and update.