Browning M1900 by FN Herstal - Brevete S.D.D.G - Deactivated

~ Browning M1900 by FN Herstal - Brevete S.D.D.G - Deactivated ~

The pistol is deactivated to the current UK/EU standards, so It doesn’t cock, dry fired nor striped.

The magazine can be removed and the slide and trigger move on spring tension. One of the bakelite grips has an age-related chip.

It is serial numbered 6745

This is a pre WWI original FN Browning model 1900 with matching numbers, correct grips and magazine.
The serial number is a very early.

This model was one of the very first semi automatic pistols of its type. Designed by John Mosses Browning, it proved to be a very popular pistol being adopted by military forces around the world.

Production started in 1900 and ceased in 1914.

This model was used by Belgium and Austro-Hungarian forces during WWI, with many being captured and then re-issued. Chambered in 7.65mm, a calibre in common use with most military forces of the period.

United States President Theodore Roosevelt owned a mother of pearl-gripped Modele 1899, which he regularly kept on his person and in his bedside drawer.
Eugen Schauman, a Finnish nationalist activist, assassinated the Governor-General Nikolay Bobrikov (the highest Russian authority in the Grand Duchy of Finland) with a Browning pistol in Helsinki on June 16, 1904. The act was followed by spontaneous anti-Russian celebrations in the streets of Helsinki and after the 1917 independence Schauman was considered to be a national hero of Finland.

An Jung-geun, a Korean-independence activist, assassinated the 1st Prime Minister of Japan and Resident-General of Korea Itō Hirobumi with this type of gun on October 26, 1909 in Harbin railway station.

Socialist revolutionary Fanny Kaplan also used a FN M1900 in her attempted assassination of Lenin on August 30, 1918.

Abelardo Mendoza Leyva, a militant of the Peruvian left-wing APRA party, is also reported to have used an FN1900 to assassinate President Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro in Lima, on April 30, 1933.

The pistol was popular in China from its introduction through World War II and was often copied and used as the basis for other designs. State-run arsenals produced serialized production runs for warlord militias, and local craftsmen produced one-off handmade versions.

The North Korean Type 64 pistol [ja] is a copy of the M1900. Specimens examined by western authorities were marked with the date of 1964. A silenced variant was produced that featured a shortened slide to allow the threaded barrel to protrude far enough to attach the silencer.