Beretta advice requested

[lrrifleman]

Greetings!

My neighbor is looking at a Beretta and turned to me for some help, but I am over my head and turning to any Beretta collectors that might be here.

With respect to chambering, the pistol is marked "9mm Brevetto 1915". I know nothing of the older Beretta's, but believe that this may be a Model of 1915. The current owner says that it is essentially a 9mm Luger cartridge, but requires a "lezeni" round, which is allegedly a lower powered/pressure round.

Can anyone here identify the model of Beretta my neighbor is looking at, and what cartridge it would fire?

As always, thanks in advance for your help!

 

[Kurusu]

All the information you need.


[ame="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s1pJi0vY_IE"]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s1pJi0vY_IE[/ame]

Edit. If it is marked 9mm it would be 9mm Glisenti. A word of caution here. This cartridge has about the same dimensions as the 9mm Luger but is much less powerfull. The 9mm Luger will probably chamber in this pistol but firing it in one is very dangerous.

 

[outta_ammo]

The realy short version of the video posted above (which is excellent) is:
It is a 1915 in the standard—at the time—Italian military cartridge 9mm Glisenti. Dimensionally, the Glesenti round is nearly identical to the 9mm parabellum, which it will chamber, but loaded to much lower pressure. A standard 9mm round would destoy this little blow back in short order.

 

[lrrifleman]

Kurusu, very educational. Thanks!