It created surprisingly substantial recoil and so required a firm grip. The Baby had a 6-round magazine and was accurate to eight metres. Models made between 19 bore the name ‘Baby’ on the grip and this example dates to around 1950. Teaming up with the Fabrique Nationale (FN) in Herstal and Liege, Belgium, he went on to design some famous automatic weapons including the FN Model 1910 blowback pistol used by Gavrilo Princip to assassinate the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo in June 1914, the event that sparked the First World War.Īnother well-known Browning blowback pistol was his 1905 6.35mm (.25 ACP) Vest Pocket pistol, intended for self-defence, and the smallest of his designs. It includes detailed chapters on FN Browning Models 1899, 1900, 1903, 1905 (06) Vest-Pocket, 1910, 1922, Baby, 1935 High Power, 110, 115, 120, 125, 135 and 140, as well as the Husqvarna Model 1907.
25 auto/6.35mm pistol was considered to be an adequate and appropriate firearm for service use by police detectives and was.
FN 1905 VEST POCKET MAGAZINE SERIAL NUMBER
The serial number puts the production of this gun to sometime around 1911/12. On 7 July 1897 John Moses Browning and Fabrique Nationale (FN) signed an agreement giving FN the right to sell Browning-designed weapons in much of Europe, but specifically excluding them from markets in the United States, Great Britain, and Ireland where Colt’s had been licensed to sell Browning. In 97 very sharp condition, we have a very nice FN Model 1905 Vest Pocket Pistol that was a WW2 vet bringback. the V.P.25, The M1905/M1906 Vest Pocket pistol incorporated a grip safety. During 1995 the technology and inventory of parts of the FN Baby Browning. Fabrique Nationale (FN) introduced the revolutionary model in 1905. After falling out with his employers, the Winchester Repeating Arms Company in 1902, he headed for Europe. The 1906 FN Browning & 1908 Colt Pistols. The 1905 Vest Pocket pistol incorporated a grip safety mechanism and also a. The American John Moses Browning made his first firearm at the age of 13 in his father's shop in Utah.