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LOT 408
Desirable Charles Erb Manufactured German Type
MP.28 II Submachine Gun, Class III/NFA Fully Transferable
Machine Gun - Serial no. 2625, 9 mm cal., 8 inch round bbl., blue
finish, walnut stock. This is a very nice example of a German MP28 II
type SMG that was manufactured using an original set of MP28 parts
mated to a newly manufactured receiver by Charles Erb in Penn. It
is a straight blow-back type weapon firing the standard 9 mm Luger
cartridge. It has a heavy tubular receiver and barrel jacket with a heavy
round bolt with a fixed firing pin. The MP28 was developed in 1928 as
a redesign of the original MP18 submachine gun and used a 20 or 30
round stick magazine in lieu of the Luger drum magazine. This change
required a new magazine housing, hence the model number change,
from MP18 to MP28. Both models were heavily restricted under the
Treaty of Versailles, so most were actually manufactured by the SIG
factory in Switzerland or the Pieper factory in Belgium. The magazine
housing is stamped: “M.P.28.II./SYSTEM/SCHMEISSER/PATENT/2625”.
The lower left rear side of the receiver is stamped with the bullet logo
of the Charles Erb company in Fredrickstown, PA. The receiver and
barrel jacket are fitted with a fixed blade front sight and an adjustable
tangent rear sight (graduated from 100 to 1,000 meters). It has a one-
piece walnut stock with finger grooves on the sides and a flat stamped
steel buttplate. It has matching serial number on the magazine housing
bolt and receiver. The underside of the walnut stock is stamped with
serial number “15401”. Includes six stick magazines total: four 20-round
magazines, one 32-round magazine, and one rare 50-round magazine.
CONDITION: Very fine as manufactured, with 90% of the blue finish
overall, some blue loss on the rear section of the perforated barrel
jacket, and some light speckling the outside of the receiver. The walnut
stock is very good with a nice original medium brown color overall
showing light handling marks and some pressure dents on the sides
from actual field use. Mechanically excellent. A very nice looking,
classic MP 28 II type submachine gun! NOTE: This weapon is a National
Firearms Act (NFA), fully transferable Class 3, which is registered with
the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, (BATFE) under
the provisions of 18 U.S.C. Chapter 44 and 27 CFR part 478.
Estimate: 13,000 - 19,000 345