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Hi Ron
This is a pistol for civilian use
and for the police in the sixties and seventies.
The pistol has no lock for a mounting device.

Best regards
Horst

Hi Ron, this is a No 3 Mk 1*. This pistol was introduced in 1942, the difference to the No 3 Mk 1 was the safety on the left side. Obviously this is a very early production, because the new type designation (with star) is not yet stamped. Molins Machine & Co was commissioned by Webley & Scot...

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Hello Bruno,
Evidentia broj is Yugoslavian and means inventory number. This pistol was adopted into the Yugoslav army after the Second World War.

Best regards
Horst

This marking means 9. Batterie, Artillerie Regiment 6, Waffe Nr. 2
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Horst

Hello Bruno,
the smooth barrel for the Wurfkörper 361 was made of brass. The barrel for the Panzerwurfkörper 42 was made of steel.

Greetings Horst

Around the middle of the fifties of the last century, Schermuly started to rebuild excess line throwing pistols into signal pistols and sell them on the civilian market. Pistols of this type were available in various designs, e.g. with the "American handle" or with the rounded handle of th...

Signal pistol of the revolutionary troops This signal pistol is a very much simplified replica of the 1930 Soviet model. It was made by hand in the final stages of the Chinese Civil War for the Communist troops in small workshops because the revolutionary forces did not have the capability to make s...