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7/15/2018 11:10:01 AM

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Section 8: Handguns
Subject: "New" FN 1900 purchase Msg# 1020290

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Mark Freburg Forum Manager

Joined 4/3/2000

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Eric Freburg (Read)

Joined 5/3/2011

Far out! That is extra special. So if I understand this right in my fading old brain, after the war the Gemran police agencies added this marking to their pistols to indicate that they were exempt from confiscation--from the allies?

This pistol has been around so long now, one has to wonder where else it has been all these years.

For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where:
Follow up now that I was able to find some more information about the markings. The K.P.D.C. No 3 indicates the following; Königlich Polizeidirektion Cassel (Royal Police Direction at Cassel), inventory ledger No. 3. This belonged to the state police in the city of Cassel in the German state of Prussia, and was pistol #3 in their inventory. I found a pistol listed in a guide to the German contract pistols that was S/N 160702 (3 before mine) and was ledger # 5 for the same police unit. The 1920 overstamp on the side of the frame was to indicate firearms that belonged to official police or army inventories, and were not subject to confiscation of arms from civilians that took place during the post war period. My serial number would indicate that the pistol was likely produced about 1904, based on year by year production quantities I found in a book about the pistol. I already knew the slide and frame markings indicated that the gun was from prior to May of 1907, but this narrowed things down a bit more.

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