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FN Browning Pistols,
Side-Arms that Shaped World History
This book is replaced by the
2013 second / expanded edition
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Title: FN Browning Pistols
Subtitle: Side-Arms that Shaped World History
Author: Anthony Vanderlinden
Publisher: Wet Dog Publications
Pages: 334 pages, quality coated paper
Cover: Hardbound with color cover
Size: 8.75" x 11.25" (22 x28 cm.)
Photographs: Over 1000 quality photographs!
Printed and bound in the USA!
ISBN: 0-9707997-4-8
Price: Original Retail $64.95 - SOLD OUT
Content
The History of Fabrique Nationale
1889-1896: A
Heritage of Craftsmanship
1896-1914:
Adversity Leads to Innovation
The 1914 Gala
Evening and Presentation Pistols
The
Sarajevo Affair
1914-1918:
The Great War
1919-1929:
From Recession to Recession
World War II:
The Belgian Situation
World War II:
Outside of FN’s Gates
World War II:
Inside of FN’s Gates
1944-1950:
Leaping into Production
1950-1960:
Recovery through the Golden Sixties
1970-1980:
Diversification in the Space Age
Modern Times
“Le Maitre” John Moses Browning
A Genius in the Shadows: Dieudonne Saive
Proofs and Markings
FN
Manufacturing Markings
The Liege
Proof House and Proof Markings
World War II
Occupation Markings
Acceptance
Markings
Foreign
Proofs
FN production Processes and Procedures
The John M. Browning Prototypes
FN’s Sales Network
The FN Browning Model 1899
The FN Browning Model 1900
The Belgian
Military FN 1900
The
Austrian-Hungarian Purchases
The
Mysterious Greek Contract
The FN 1900
in Imperial Russia
German Police
use of the Model 1900 & 1905
The French
and the FN Model 1900
Police
Pistols in Denmark, Norway and Finland
The FN Browning Model 1903
The Swedish
Acceptance
Imperial
Russian Purchases
Ottoman
Empire and Turkish Contracts
From Estonia
to the Spanish Civil War
Paraguayan
and Salvadoran Contracts
Service in
the British Navy and German Police
The Husqvarna Model 1907
The FN Browning Model 1905
(1906)
Imperial
Russian General Staff Contracts
Imperial
German Pistols
Shanghai
Municipal Police Pistols
1940: Early
German Occupation production
The FN Browning Model 1910
FN Browning
1910 in Belgian Service
FN
Browning 1910 in The Netherlands
French &
Syrian Police Orders
The
Model 1910 in Australia
The
Model 1910 in Finland
FN
1910 in World War II, Germany and Japan
Postwar
Military Contracts
The Modele 1910 Grand Browning
The FN Browning Model 1922
The
Many Yugoslav Orders
The
Many Dutch Variations
The
Mexican Contracts
The FN
1922 for Greece
The
Turkish Contracts
The
French Orders
The
Romanian Contract
The FN
1922 in Scandinavia: Denmark & Finland
World War II German Model 1922 Pistols
WaA613
Accepted Pistols
WaA103
Accepted Pistols
WaA140
Accepted Pistols
Eagle
N Pistols
Postwar
Belgian Government Contracts
Postwar
German Contracts
The FN Baby Browning
The Grand Rendement (High Efficiency)
The FN Browning Model 1935 GP (High Power)
Belgian
Prewar Contracts
Lithuanian
High Powers
Estonian
Contracts
The
Paraguayan Order
Argentine
Contracts
Chinese
Orders
The
High Power in Finland
Slotted
Fixed-Sighted Pistols: The French GP
World War II German High Power Pistols
Captured
and Seized Pistols
Pistols
assembled prior to WaA613
WaA613
Pistols
WaA103
Pistols
WaA140
Pistols
Eagle
N Pistols
Wartime Factory Reworks
Post
Liberation Pistols
The Danish Orders
Belgian
Contracts: Regent and Royal
Colonial
Sales: The Congo
The
Netherlands adopts the High Power
The
High Power in West Germany and Austria
The
British L9A1
The
alleged Oman Contract
U.S.
Law Enforcement Imports: Howco
Mass
Production, Developments of the High Power
The 100-Series Pistols
The Browning Arms Company Pistols
Description
FN Browning Pistols, Side-Arms that
Shaped World History
reflects the continued work of Anthony Vanderlinden on the topic of FN Browning
Pistols. This new book
includes information found in the original issue titled Belgian Browning
Pistols and expands into more variants and details geared toward collector
interests. It includes
detailed chapters on FN Browning Models 1899, 1900, 1903, 1905 (06) Vest-Pocket,
1910, 1922, Baby, 1935 High Power, 110, 115, 120, 125, 135 and 140, as well as
the Husqvarna Model 1907.
More
than 80 contracts and variants are featured. Factory engraving samples as well
as special commercial pistols such as extended barrel variants are illustrated.
An
overview shows the Browning Arms Co. distributed models like the High Power,
Baby, Model 1955 and 10/71.
All
of John Browning’s handmade prototypes are pictured and illustrate the models
manufactured by Colt and FN.
This
book includes the history of Fabrique Nationale, information on Liège
proofs, military acceptance markings as well FN’s dealer network and how FN
products were distributed worldwide.
Significant
historical pistols are featured including those owned by President Teddy Roosevelt, King
Albert I, General Martinez of El Salvador and John Browning among others. Also
included is new information on Gavrilo Princip and the pistol that started World
War I.
It
includes comprehensive chapters on FN during World War II. Much of this information has
never been published in English and constitutes the most complete write-up on
FN’s wartime production, resistance activities, lunch box specials, etc.
All wartime pistol variants are examined in detail.
Specific
elements aid collectors in identifying production periods, model variants and
modern frauds. The book explains many popular misconceptions on FN pistols. More
than 1000 photographs illustrate this comprehensive book!
Second - Expanded edition available
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Book
Review: See what Mark Keefe, editor of the NRA's American Rifleman magazine, has
to say by clicking here:
http://www.americanrifleman.org/articles/fn-browning-pistols-book-review/
Low-resolution Sample Pages
(all
photographs including cover page and sample pages are copyright Wet Dog
Publications and can not be reproduced without the written authorization of the
publisher)
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