In total, Shanghai (Jiangnan Arsenal) produced 66,441 of these pistols, including 60,000 of them in 1920 (compare this to a total of about 72,000 Model 1900 pistols made by FN in Belgium). This was one of the foremost arms producers in China at the time. This particular gun was made in 1919, in Shanghai (according to the writing on the grips and serial number). As a result, markings vary from Chinese characters like this one has, to exact copies of FN markings, to random jumbles of letters. Some, like the guns made by the major arsenals at Jinling and Shanghai, were high quality firearms and others were one-off copies made by tiny shops. These were popular pistols in pre-WWII China, and were manufactured by a wide variety of shops and arsenals. It’s a Chinese manufactured copy of the Browning Model 1900, chambered for. Well, he met up with us at the show last weekend, and found a neat pistol there. You might recall our friend Bin Shih from the series of interviews we did with him a while back.
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