John Dillinger carried and used at least one. They sold well and found their way into the hands of many average Americans. Relatively innovative designs produced in recently war-torn Europe in popular calibers and exported to the United States at affordable prices. Orgies pistols with sleek, streamlined design and finish.įundamentally, the Ortgies was the Springfield XD of the 1920-1940s eras.
32ACP, and 380 in North America, sold like hotcakes to US importers for as little as 65-cents (due to the low value of the German deutschmark at the time) who in turn marketed them for $6-$8 from Boston to Chicago to San Francisco throughout the prohibition and depression era. Deutsche Werke guns are plainly marked and will bear the designation “Ortgies’ patent” and have a very art-deco looking couchant cat design on both the grips and the slide.īy 1924, some 435,000 of these handy little pistols had come off the assembly lines in 6.35mm, 7.65mm Browning, and 9x18mm Kurz. It was under this company that most were produced. In 1921, the company had transferred operations to Deutsche Werken AG. Henrich apparently knew the value of his product and when a large arms consortium offered to buy his company’s trade names, inventory, components, and tooling, he took it and retired. Ortgies set up a factory for his innovative little pistols in Erfurt, creatively named Ortgies & Co (and marked as such) in 1919. Proofmark showing ‘Ortgies Patent’ imprint.
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