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Can ANYONE ID this pistol??

KK Member Posts: 1,291 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited January 2007 in Ask the Experts
One of those ODD things that comes across ones path.
Anyone here know what the HECK this is?
Please let me in on it!!
I can tell you it has the MAUSER logo on it....

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  • rufe-snowrufe-snow Member Posts: 18,650 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The type is known as "Unknown Maker Asiatic Pistol". Very low production hybrid designs, little Mauser, little Star, little this, liitle that, whatever? Could be chambered for most any caliber. Highly recommened, not to be shot.
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  • KK Member Posts: 1,291 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Rufe...sometimes...you amaze me!
    How did I know you would be the one to know!!!???!!!
    Someone when to a LOT of trouble trying to make it look like an FN made pistol (lots of marks all over it).
    Any idea as to age?
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  • rufe-snowrufe-snow Member Posts: 18,650 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by K
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    Any idea as to age?



    Nobody knows? You can pick any year you want to between 1915 & 1945.
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  • Hardrada55Hardrada55 Member Posts: 62 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    A very similar pistol is #1544 in Zhuk's "The Illustrated Encylopedia of Handguns". Several years back Mr. Lewis Curtis put out a pamphlet of about 8 pages entitled, "Guide to the Identification of Chinese Pistols". Your pistol looks similar to what he calls the M1914 Style type III (FN Mauser). His notes say "These pistols have been described by current Chinese publications as a product of the Koumintang (KMT) or Nationalist Chinese Party of Chiang K'ia-shek. Most dated specimens are from the late 1930s or early 1940s. At least some of the production occurred in the arsenals which relocated to Yunan and Szechwan provinces in 1937 to 1939." They appear to come in several "sub-species" which are in either 7.65mm Browning or 7.63mm Mauser and can be slotted for a shoulder stock and are usually marked with both Mauser and FN logos.
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