One is close to being a dug up, but not atypical for the guns used hard and put away wet by the Chinese Warlords, most active in the mid-late 1920s. SOLD AS HISTORICAL RELICS, NOT TO BE FIRED!Ĭondition is horrible. Pistol B #126063: Standard size FN 1900, presentable with gray blue faded patchy finish, strawed extractor, original grips, missing magazine.Ĭhinese copies of the FN 1900, sold as a pair, BOTH WITH THE SAME SERIAL NUMBER and similarly copied markings. Original magazine with 6 indicator holes. This makes them quite collectable and they offer a unique, “hand-crafted” piece for C&R collectors.Pistol A #126063: Standard size and configuration FN 1900, looks like a “dug up” with mottled gray/brown finish, loaded indicator with flat upper surface, crudely notched for rear sight, trigger will not engage, missing extractor, well worn grips. While the unlicensed Chinese M1900 copies are among the worst guns mass produced, they did serve from the Chinese Warlord Era through WWII and the Chinese Civil War. The broad majority don’t seem to have much a provision for a rear sight anyway. They should not be fired as the springs, fittings, and overall metal used for production cannot be considered reliable. 32ACP cartridge and are better off left in the display case. M1900 copies are almost always chambered in the same. It appears the 1 might have been damaged or lost, as some have been found with the serial 26063. Interestingly, an apparent majority of them (again somewhat varied) display the same serial number: 126063. These copies vary in size, weight, quality, and general configuration. The safety would normally be marked FEU (fire) and SUR (on, or safe) but in this case it’s be simplified to EEU and EEU. Our example here was marked with stamps attempting to emulate “Browning’s Patent” and “Fabrique-Nationale-D’armesdeGuerre Herstal-Belgique” but instead display “Browning’s Nationale” and “d’armesde d’armesde d’armesde d’armesde,” with a few upside down for good measure. So many of the small arsenals and workshops attempted to emulate the English and French markings on the guns with limited success. Obviously these did not hold up as well as an original and discerning Chinese buyers would be put off by native production. Small workshops were able to create clones of the gun with simple tools and inferior metals. This, combined with its reputation, made it especially popular in martial China.
Originally known as the “Browning Pistol,” its widespread popularity made his name practically synonymous with semi-automatic pistols in many parts of the world.īrowning made his pistol easy to produce with simple machine operations. John Browning introduced the first slide operated handgun through Fabrique Nationale d’Herstal in Belgium. So when soldiers went looking for pistols in China, this one was an obvious choice.
Browning’s Model 1900 pistol was an icon and reasonably simple to manufacture.
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