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In fact, the only interchangeable parts are the extractor/pin/spring, the barrel, the striker/spring/spring guide, the trigger/pin, the connector (aka trigger bar), sear/pin, recoil spring/guide (pre Tansley safety models) mags and mag catch. Some small internal parts are also different, as well as the Tansley magazine disconnect. The grip safety is different as well as the sear spring and do not interchange.
#FN 1905 VEST POCKET MAGAZINE MANUAL#
The slides are completely different and the manual safeties are completely different.
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There are some major differences and some minor differences. Parts will usually interchange.Ĭolt NEVER made guns for FN, or marked FN.įN made 1905/06s were NEVER identical to Colts (or vice versa, as the Colts came after the FNs.). Later ones were exactly like the Colt model. There were several versions of the early FN 25. Smug line removed and eating of crow substituted. The later, third variations have very obvious differences from a Colt. This second variation used an almost identical safety as used on the Colt VP, and the outward physical appearance was virtually identical to the Colt. 30,000 or so before introducing the "Triple Surete" (triple safety) model made until the final production in 1959 at over 1,008,000. Second edit: What I perceived to be an FN marked Colt turns out to actually be a very scarce (and previously unkown to me) second variation FN 1905/06. I dug out one of my Colts and the safety performs similarly to the FN, but the parts are still not interchangeable. LOL!Įdit: Regarding the 180 degree safety, Jim K was right: I was thinking of a Czech Duo. My surmise is that that Colt started producing FN marked guns after Belgium was overrun by the Germans in WW I, but this is only a guess.-And incorrect. It's the only sample I have ever seen, and another collector I talked to said he had also seen one. At the time, the guy wanted in excess of $200.00 for the gun which I thought was too high at the time. 25s, early ones that had only a grip safety and a later variation that had a manual safety very similar to that used on the 1910s and 1922s, a grip safety and a magazine disconnector.Īs I stated, EVERY detail was identical that that of a Colt. Prior to that, I was always aware of two variations of the 1905/06 FN. 25 that was identical in EVERY respect to a Colt 1908 V.P. 25s, some years back (in the 80s) a guy come into the shop where I worked and offered to me an FN. These things really are a disease ya know! :p Came out great, and back it went into the safe until a few years ago, when I decided to sell it. By that time, we had got into parkerizing, and I parkerized it.
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It had lost a lot of its finish and was pretty rough looking. Mine ended up sitting in the safe for a number of years before I refound it and decided to refinish it. The Brownings are cool little guns, and truly "little" guns. That was also the last time I used a hanky for a holster. I went the Seecamp route, he went with a Walther TPH. I guess all the stars aligned, and while he was lucky, and wasnt hurt, it was an eye opener, for both of us, and we both soon had something else. I did that up until my buddy, who also carried one, and in basically the same fashion, had his go off while bending over working in his garden. I normally carried it loaded, with the safety on. The gun is now on display in the Kazerne Dossin museum in Mechelen.I carried a Baby for a number of years, usually slipped into a folded handkerchief in my back pocket. 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. 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. 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. 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.