A German Enigma machine from 1939 has sold for $48,324 in Auction Team Breker's April 18 sale in Cologne, Germany.

It was manufactured by Chiffriermaschinen-Ges. Heimsoeth und Rinke for the Swiss army.

The Enigma machine is a model K, which were manufactured for the Swiss military

While the Engima machine is best known as an encoding tool of the Nazis, it was invented several years before the second world war and exported around the world.

Last week, a German-used Enigma machine set a new world record at Bonhams New York with a final bid of $269,000.

A notebook belonging to Alan Turing, who was instrumental in cracking Enigma's code, made $1m.

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