This pistol offered the owner a lot of options. While decocking levers have become somewhat standard, especially on the SIG-Sauer pistols (the firm that Sauer & Son eventually merged into), this one was the first and.not only is it a decocker, but it is also a recocker. The Sauer 38H was the first pistol to have a decocker lever which is mounted on the left side just in front of the grip. There is a frame-mounted magazine release button on the left side just to the lower right of the trigger guard and this is somewhat unusual for a European pistol at this time as most employed a magazine catch on the heal of the grip. The 38H has a loaded chamber indicator in the form of a pin which sticks out at the rear of the slide when a round had been loaded. The safety lever is mounted on the left rear of the slide. The pistol has the rudimentary small front blade sight and U-shaped rear sight that were very common for the time of manufacture. At the outset of WWII the pistol was issued to German police units as well as some 200,000 being ordered for the Wehrmacht (Army) and Luftwaffe (Air Force). Sauer & Son were in stiff competition with Mauser and Walther in the small pocket-pistol market when they developed the Model 38H.
While rather plain and unremarkable looking it contained all of the bells and whistles available at that time and one refinement that has never been seen since. The JP Sauer & Son Model 38H is a 7.65 mm (.32 ACP) caliber fixed barrel blowback operated semi-automatic pistol with a magazine capacity of 8 rounds.
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