The 1938 date is more likely based purely on the fact that my Grandfather died in 1968 and the pistol had been handed into the police some years before his death. He hadn't been using it for a while which is why he decided that it was best to hand it in. He did carry it on him through-out WW2, at all times, and once had an entire Germanicon bomber crew surrender to him single handily while he was just armed with his little Browning 1910. He did order the crew to stand in a nearby duck pond until help arrived because his theory was that if the Germans were cold, wet and up to their waists in water they were much less likely to try any tricks in order to escape.
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