Schmeisser Model 1

[Me239]

Hey everyone! I’ve been itching for well over a decade now for a classic pocket rocket and had my heart set on a Colt Vest Pocket. Well long story short, this ain’t it, but god is this such a cool little pistol. It was a relatively short lived pistol in the 1920s and rested on its laurels of the patent to disassemble the pistol with its magazine. Forewarning, I don’t suggest trying this unless you want your mag guts flying across the room. Anyways, wanted to share this little relic of the past.

Also, within days of getting this pistol, the firing pin bit the dust and I discovered a small void in the pin itself. I couldn’t find a replacement pin, so now I’m making them on my CNC. Wasn’t sure if here’s the right place to advertise, but felt it was worth mentioning cause it let me get this little pistol running again.

 

[bobsguns]

There're many guns who could use a new firing pin, so you may be onto something, IMO.

I know the Smith Models 422/622 no longer have firing pins for sale from Smith. Not sure about the 22A series.

Good luck to you!

 

[Me239]

There're many guns who could use a new firing pin, so you may be onto something, IMO.

I know the Smith Models 422/622 no longer have firing pins for sale from Smith. Not sure about the 22A series.

Good luck to you!

Thanks! Currently I have some listed on eBay, but this is such a rare gun that it’s not getting much traction. I talked to some owners of other rare guns and one of them even went as far as having some blanks metal 3D printed and trying to file them to size. Getting shops to do onesies and twosies is incredibly expensive. I don’t have either of the guns you mentioned, so it’d be up to another owner to do the test fit and function for me, but I’ll keep my eye out!

 

[Greyman50]

Did’n t know they made pocket pistols, prefer their MP-38 and 40.

 

[ISCS Yoda]

Apparently, Europeans were very fond of this kind of little pistol. The Walther No. 1 .25 ACP was around shortly after the turn of the last century.

Walther Model 1

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There were quite a few others as well. Some were very similar to that Schmeisser. There is an interesting discussion about the CZ Duo on the Colt Forum, of all places, but I found it accidentally and I'm not a member and we can't post to other Forums anyway. My CZ Duo is from German occupied Czechoslovakia in 1944. As soon as I remember how to post pictures I'll do that. I'm drawing a blank at the moment.
That took me a minute..........here it is!

 

[2152hq]

Neat oldschool Mouse guns.
The early European 25's and 32's were an accumulator's specialty some yrs ago. They could often be found at great prices.

There's a Model 2 edition of the Schmeisser 25 as well.
It is smaller and looks a lot like the Walther Mod9

They are actually made by the C.G Haenel Co.
(Hugo) Schmeisser held patents on mechanisms in the pistols.
Schmeisser was a designer for Haenel.
There's a bunch in that family that held many firearms design patents.

The MP38/40 was called the Schmeisser because of the common Schmeisser Patent Mark seen on the magazines. That magazine was his design.
Erma was the prime mfg'r of the gun

Heinrich (?) Vollmer was the principal designer by most accounts though another designer named
Geipel who worked for Erma in the 30's was involved and sometimes given design credit.

I think Vollmer designed an earlier subgun for Erma, the EMP Model.
Geipel took that and made it the Mp38

Gets confusing,,at least for me.

Haenel built some beautiful sporting bolt action rifles on the GEW88 action. They also designed and produced the New Model Mannlicher, 2 version .
These New Model rifles were an attempt to get around the Mauser patents re: bolt action rifles.
These I like....very classy rifles.