I just acquired a Spanish 25 acp pistol with "AUTOMATIC PISTOL CAL 6.35 and the name PROTECTOR ON THE SLIDE. There is no other information and i can't find anything about it on the Internet. Appreciate any information, including take down instructions, from any of you.
Jim

Not much to go on. How old does it look?

The general type and English fantasy name sound like one of the .25 FN/Colt Vest Pocket copies that the Basque gun makers around Eibar switched to after the WW I Ruby contracts ran out, in the 1920s. Same time period when they produced S&W and Colt revolver copies.

PS: Does it look like this one? Then I’d be right.

Spanish "Protector" .25 ACP semi-auto pistol. | Quinn's Auction Galleries

In Ian Hogg’s “Pistols of the World” one finds the following sentence:

“Protector: This name was applied to 6·35mm Eibar-type pistols made by Echave & Arizmendi and Santiago Salaberrin.”

Here is a rant about disassembling a Protector from an old post in a different forum, for what it’s worth

“ .... the Protector had some of the same characteristics as the Colt Junior and the Colt Baby Hammerless. Lock the slide back, remove the barrel, then remove the take-down lever. and slide the slide assembly off the front of the gun. Simple, huh? Not in my world. I couldn't get the slide to come back far enough to lock it. What a PITA! I just started tearing parts out of it until it was down to the frame and 1 pin. Turns out the hammer had come loose and prevented the slide from coming all the way back. A long coil spring in the back-strap was the main spring for the hammer at one end and the spring pressure for the magazine release at the other end.
I finally got it all back together a couple of hours later and it will fire now.”