View From The Porch: Gratuitous Gun Pr0n #51: Europellets, 1907-12.

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Gratuitous Gun Pr0n #51: Europellets, 1907-12.

Once upon a time, it was not considered unseemly for a gentleman on the continent to acquire a pistol for his vest pocket...

Dreyse M1907, Frommer Stop (1912), and FN M1910, all in 7.65 Browning, aka .32ACP.

I feel an Arms Room post comin' on...

20 comments:

Kristophr said...: Did you ever find that part for your Frommer Stop?; 3:49 PM, March 20, 2010
Tam said...: Nope. I still need an extractor. :(; 3:51 PM, March 20, 2010
og said...: That is some sweetness there.; 4:01 PM, March 20, 2010
Just My 2¢ said...: May grandfather was a tax collector in Lebanon County, PA (Amish country). Since he ended up with a lot of cash in the house until the bank opened, he bought himself a Mauser M1910 in .25acp. When he died, we found it in the nightstand, loaded, with the original Mauser manual (in German) and a single box of ammo with 6 rounds missing. What a sweet little pistol. My younger brother got that one.

On the subject of vest pocket pistols, it wasn't just the gentlemen on the continent that carried them, I got my great grandpa's S&W Model 1, 2nd issue in 22LR. It's in a very light goatskin holster with a button to secure it inside his vest. He was apparently famous for walking home from work and bringing home a rabbit for the next evening's dinner.; 4:34 PM, March 20, 2010
New Jovian Thunderbolt said...: Yay! Arms Room.; 5:28 PM, March 20, 2010
Drang said...: Marstar Canada: Frommer Stop (1912) Pistol Parts & Accessories listed as "Sold Out", but, hey, you never know, eh?; 5:46 PM, March 20, 2010
Revolver Rob said...: You've just got to get you a Walther Model 4 or 4 and a CZ-24 or 27 for this 7.65mm Browning collection you've got going, my darling Tam.

It really would just be fab.

-Rob; 6:20 PM, March 20, 2010
Revolver Rob said...: Make that Walther Model 3 or 4.

-Rob; 6:20 PM, March 20, 2010
Michael in CT said...: Numrich Gun Parts is out of stock as well.

Tam, if you have the broken extractor, perhaps you could find a gunsmith that could make you one?; 6:51 PM, March 20, 2010
Tam said...: Sadly, it is not broken, but rather absent.; 7:00 PM, March 20, 2010
Unknown said...: I've got two of those (I lack a Frommer of any sort), and they're neat little pistols. They're fun to shoot, and I keep looking for old additions to my .32ACP accumulation.

The sights aren't great, but I'm not out to shoot them at 50 yds. For close-in plinking, they're great!; 11:12 PM, March 20, 2010
leBolide said...: I like the Frommer Stop. Looks like a paintball gun.; 12:43 AM, March 21, 2010
Robert Langham said...: No one could possibly object to being shot with such fine examples of design and craft.; 9:35 AM, March 21, 2010
jetfxr69 said...: Are there drawings of previously mentioned ejector? I know there are many machinists around. :); 11:46 AM, March 21, 2010
jetfxr69 said...: Ugh. Extractor; 11:47 AM, March 21, 2010
Anonymous said...: Interesting how much my Deutsche Werke,Ortgies looks like that FN 1910.

Glenn Kelley; 4:01 PM, March 21, 2010
Kristophr said...: Maybe you should just pay a gunsmith to make you one?; 9:03 PM, March 21, 2010
Noah D said...: That Frommer is...oddly fascinating.; 10:45 PM, March 21, 2010
Tam said...: It operates on the long-recoil principle, too. It's like a little Browning A5 shotgun in there.; 7:34 AM, March 22, 2010
NotClauswitz said...: Do you need a period holster for the Browning?
I was just screwing around selling crap on eBay when I came across it...; 7:49 PM, January 24, 2012