Subject: Re: Ortgies
From: citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Date: Wed Mar 01 2000 - 13:10:00 EST
God, Paul, that picture attachment was chilling.
Did you notice the almost backwards "S" in the design medallion on the
handle?
--Bruce
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Miller <phm@midsouth.rr.com>
To: bananafish@roughdraft.org <bananafish@roughdraft.org>
Date: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 9:57 AM
Subject: Ortgies
>Is the Ortgies simple logistics? Were WWII vets not allowed to keep their
>pistols? Why the Ortgies? Any ideas?
>-j----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>The Ortgies 7.65 was a German made pistol. Many of the Ortgies were cocked
>by sqeezing the grip which released the safety and cocked the weapon,
>remember Seymour "cocked the piece".
> Why a German pistol? Maybe symbolism, maybe not.
> The attached picture is of a smaller calibre Ortgies.
> Seymour's pistol probably would have looked like this except on a larger
>frame.
>
>Paul
>
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