Browning fn 1905
The gun is now on display in the Kazerne Dossin museum in Mechelen. 1 It is virtually identical to the Colt Model 1908 Vest Pocket, which was based on the same John Browning prototype, and was the inspiration for FN's. The Model 1905 was used by the Belgian Resistance in 1943 in the Attack on the twentieth convoy, in which more than 100 Jews were saved from a Holocaust train transporting them to Auschwitz concentration camp. The FN Model 1905 (from its patent date) or FN Model 1906 (in European countries due to its date of manufacture) was a pistol manufactured by Fabrique Nationale de Herstal from 1906 to 1959. Although Browning's handgun patents were sold to both FN and Colt, this was the only case in which both companies put the same design into production without any significant modification. Id rather beat a bad guy to death with my Browning High Power, than shoot him dead with a plastic pistol. The M1905/M1906 Vest Pocket pistol incorporated a grip safety mechanism that constituted the entire rear section of the grip.
BROWNING FN 1905 SERIAL NUMBERS
Serial numbers are stamped on the right side of the frame, just in front of the ejection port, and are also stamped on the right.
BROWNING FN 1905 SERIAL NUMBER
Colt Model 1900 Sight Safety Serial Number 318 - The Colt Model 1900 is the first. 'LONG LIVE THE FN-BROWNING-SAIVE HIGH POWER' John Browning & Dieudonne Saives Designs Will Always be Light Years Ahead of All the Others. FN Browning 1899/1900, the first production handgun to use a slide. It is virtually identical to the Colt Model 1908 Vest Pocket, which was based on the same John Browning prototype, and was the inspiration for FN's later Baby Browning design. FN HP SFS FN Model 1905/1906 (MMs 3860084010, 3860084030, 3810084020, 3480084020). The FN Model 1905 (from its patent date) or FN Model 1906 (in European countries due to its date of manufacture) was a pistol manufactured by Fabrique Nationale de Herstal from 1906 to 1959.