COLLECTOR’S CORNER

Owing to restrictions placed on the ownership of handguns in Britain, deactivated examples can carry a considerable premium. Arundel

Militaria (www.deactivated-guns.co.uk) offered a Soviet Tokarev dating from 1937 for £250, and currently offers a Chinese Type 54 for £350. Rock Island Auctions sold a functional 1941-dated Red Army Tokarev for $1,955 in December 2020, while Morphy

Auctions sold a Romanian TTC for merely $283 in August last year.