Hi:
A neighbor requested information and value of this weapon he owns.
Printed on slide and frame:
Browning 7.65mm
Brevete SCDC
Fabrique Nationale
D'Armes de Guerre
Herstal Belgique
http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/v...arrelsGunA.jpg
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Any help is appreciated,
Thanks,
Jimmy

It's an old Browning M1900, but I wouldn't have any idea of its value in that condition...maybe $150. I personally wouldn't give over $100 for it.

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CTR2 68-72

This poor Browning has lived a hard life. Yes $100-150 is in the ball park. Living in the Peoples Republic of Kalifornia I can't own. Not on the good gun list

I love gun's like that, as long as they are mechanically sound, wear only adds character to it.

It should serve you well.
Tell me. Are you troubled by Austrian Archdukes?

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Does his "other brother" Darrel's gun have duct tape as a accent stripe to distinguish it from electrical tape

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Still Running Against the Wind

With that grip tape & extended mag it looks just like one o' them fancy race guns I saw one time...

I own one...pretty good little guns...and apparently quite popular in Europe..and asia..since quite a few hand-made(kyber pass) copy-cat examples exist.

Used by Belgium as an official sidearm. Can be found with several styles of grips. Information varies..but was manufactured from 1900 to either 1910 or 1914. preceded by the FN Browning 1899..which is the same gun but longer barrel and grip(few made).

Was one of John Brownings first auto-pistol designs...the gun for which the 7.65mm/.32acp was designed for. Supposidly wasn't quite the gun Colt was looking for..but it worked so well that John Browning talked FN into production. Was really quite a succesful little handgun..despite the fact that it scarecly resembles a Browning design.

I gave $65 for mine..minus magazine..and with a bogus recoil/mainspring. I got a new mag from Numerich Arms/Gunparts for like $32..and a new mainspring from Wolf gunsprings.

A good clean example is probably worth from $300-$400. These little guns gave good service in Europe..serving through 2 world wars with many seeing service as private purchase officers sidearms and as police and privately owned handguns.

Yes I am. It seens that this "Austrian Dude" got real upset when he found out that I had been seeing his lady.

Sources vary..but the handgun used to assasinate Archduke Ferdinand and Dutchess Sofie was an FN Browning product..but was likely the more modern 1910 product..although some sources state it was an FN 1900.

The infamous gunslinger/assassin/bounty hunter Tom Horn was supposidly recaptured because he didn't know how to operate an FN 1900 he had wrested from his jailer..other sources claim it was a Luger.

Compared to some of the other first generation semi-auto handguns..the FN Browning 1900 was quite modern and fairly simple.

It was a 1910, serial #19074

The actual pistols were in an Austrian museum but vanished during WW II. Quite a few years ago a couple of members of the National Automatic Pistol Collectors Association rsearched the Austrian files and found the description and serial numbers of the guns in question. They were 1910s in 380.

jimmyj,

CW Spook had it right first off. The stocks should be hard rubber with the guns picture in a cartouche' at the top. Looks like a magazine for an 1899 though, which explains the length. Actually looks like a Triple-K from the long tang on the base plate.

After looking at my 1899 I have a couple of questions. Is the magazine noticeably loose in the well? Not just free moving, but really loose? As far as I can tell the magazines are unique to each model, and not interchangeable with any other guns except the Korean and Chinese copies of the 1900, possibly. The 1899 magazine is very similar to, but slightly smaller than the 1910 .32 magazine. The 1910 is about .015 narrower and .025 thinner than the 1899/1900 magazines, which are not interchangeable either. The most likely is your magazine is from a Model 1922 Browning that has been altered. It is identical to the 1910 except for being 9 shot instead of 6 (or 7, don't recall and it's too late to go downstairs again)! Is your magazine 9 shot (8 holes each side), and does the magazine catch notch in the back of the magazine look like it was hand cut? If so, it's a 1922, and as I said before, probably Triple-K as they always make their magazines with that odd long tang.

The 1899 had an 8 shot magazine, and the 1900 7 shots.

Here is a picture of a very early 1899, SN 21, and a fairly early 1900, SN 78,000+ of ca. 700,000 made:

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FN 1900 Emile Courant
The markings EC on the side are the initials of the owner. Emile Courant, he was the chief of the fire department in Antwerp during the war.
The Model 1900 was manufactured from 1900 to 1912, it was the first pistol ever to use the 7.65mm cartridge (known in the U.S. as .32 ACP), which had been designed for it by Browning. The Model 1900 was adopted by the Belgian Army in March 1900, and later adopted by many other European military and police forces as well as being a successful commercial product. About 725,000 were made 1899-1910.

Maybe the above will help or be accurate. It's in the ballpark anyway...