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Antique firearms can be divided into two basic types: muzzle-loading and cartridge firing. Muzzleloading antique firearms are not generally owned with the intent of firing them (although original muzzleloaders can be safely fired, after having them thoroughly inspected), but instead are usually owned as display pieces or for their historic value.
Salvator Dormus pistol (Austria-Hungary – pistol –1891/1895) San Yan Chong (China – hand cannon – 16th century) Slocum revolver (US – revolver – 1863/1865) Schmidt M1882 (Switzerland – revolver) Schmidt–Rubin rifles (Switzerland – rifle – 1889/1891) Schwarzlose Model 1898 (German Empire – semi-automatic pistol – 1898)
Diagram from the British patent for the Schwarzlose 1898. The Schwarzlose Model 1898 was a full-size, locked-breech, rotary-bolt, semi-automatic pistol invented by Prussian firearm designer Andreas Wilhelm Schwarzlose. [1] It was chambered for cartridges such as the 7.65×25mm Borchardt and 7.63×25mm Mauser. [2]
1898-1946 Colt Open Top Pocket Model Revolver: Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company.22 Short.22 Long: 7 United States: 1871-1877 Colt Paterson: Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company.36–.380-inch ball 5 United States: 1836–1842 Colt Police Positive
In the late 1980s to the early 1990s, the Federal Ordnance firearms company in South El Monte, California, made reproductions of the Mauser 1917 trench carbine and C96 pistol, named the M713 and M714 respectively.
United States Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company, Inc. (U.S. Fire Arms Mfg. Co., USFA) was a privately held firearms-manufacturing firm based in Hartford, Connecticut.Until 2011, United States Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company, Inc. was known for producing single action revolvers, which were clones of the Colt Single Action Army revolver. [5]
This pistol is one of the most simple of blow-back semi-automatic pistols ever designed. The lockwork is essentially that of an elementary single action revolver. While technically listed as a 'hesitation' lock because of a delaying cam which has some theoretical tendency to slow down the opening of the breech, in actual practice it functions as an unlocked pistol.
High Standard .22 Pistol: High Standard Manufacturing Company.22 Long Rifle United States: High Standard HDM: High Standard Manufacturing Company.22 Long Rifle United States: 1942 Hino–Komuro pistol: Komuro Juhou Seisakusho.25 ACP.32 ACP 8mm Nambu Japan: 1903 Horhe (pistol) Klimovsk Specialized Ammunition Plant: 9 mm P.A. Russia: 2006 HS2000 ...