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FN Browning Pistols,
Side-Arms that Shaped World history
Expanded Second Edition
By Anthony Vanderlinden

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Title: FN
Browning Pistols, Side-arms that Shaped World History - Expanded Second
Edition
Author: Anthony Vanderlinden
Pages: 416
Cover: Color laminated hardbound cover
Size: 8.75" x 11.25" (22 x28 cm.)
Photographs: 1645 Color and B&W.
Printed and bound in the USA!
Price: $67.95
ISBN: 0-9707997-9-9
Production run: Limited to 2000 copies
Wholesale pricing available on request
So what is
new in the expanded edition...
(scroll down for extended content listing)
- 416
pages with 1645 color and B&W photographs
- Expanded
Biographies chapter
- Expanded
Production Processes and Procedures, especially engraving department
- Expanded
Sales Network and Variants of Agent and Dealer markings
- Presentation
pistols
- Entire
color chapter on factory and military instruction manuals
- Entire
color chapter on factory boxes and presentation cases
- Entire
color chapter on holsters
- Color
section on factory high-grade engraved pistols
- Expanded
Belgian military Model 1900 section
- New
chapter on Colt Model 1903 in Belgian service
- Revised
and expanded chapters on Russian and German use of Model 1900 pistol
- Expanded
contracts on FN Model 1903: Estonian, Salvadoran and Paraguay use
- Expanded
Model 1905 variants and development history
- Expanded
Model 1910 sections on Belgian use, Yugoslav police use and postwar
contracts
- Factory
engraved Model 1922 pistols
- Expanded
Dutch, Greek, Danish contracts / variants of the Model 1922
- Transition
WaA613, WaA103, WaA140 Model 1922 pistols
- Expanded
E/N commercial section and post liberation section on Model 1922 pistols
- Expanded
Baby chapter
- High
Power shoulder-stock buyer’s identification guide: prewar, postliberation,
postwar + copies
- The
Prewar Commercial High Power with fixed sights
- Expanded
section on Belgian military / Israeli military use of the High Power
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Content:
The History of Fabrique Nationale
1889-1896: A
Heritage of Craftsmanship
1896-1914:
Adversity Leads to Innovation
The 1914 Gala
Evening and Presentation Pistols
The
Sarajevo Affair
1914-1918:
The Great War
1919-1929:
From Recession to Recession
World War II:
The Belgian Situation
World War II:
Outside of FN’s Gates
World War II:
Inside of FN’s Gates
1944-1950:
Leaping into Production
1950-1960:
Recovery through the Golden Sixties
1970-1980:
Diversification in the Space Age
Modern Times
“Le Maitre” John Moses Browning
A Genius in the Shadows: Dieudonne Saive
An FN icon: Alexandre Galopin
Auguste Benard and the art of FN
Fonson & Co.
Proofs and Markings
FN
Manufacturing Markings
The Liege
Proof House and Proof Markings
World War II
Occupation Markings
Acceptance
Markings
Foreign
Proofs
FN production Processes and Procedures
The John M. Browning Prototypes
FN’s Sales Network
Presentation Pistols
The FN Browning Model 1899
Color chapter on Instruction
Manuals
Color chapter in factory boxes and presentation cases
Color chapter on Holsters
Color chapter on Engraved Pistols
The FN Browning Model 1900
The Belgian
Military FN 1900
The Belgian Military Colt 1903
The
Austrian-Hungarian Purchases
The FN 1900
in Imperial Russia
German Police
use of the Model 1900
The French
and the FN Model 1900
Police
Pistols in Denmark, Norway and Finland
The FN Browning Model 1903
The Swedish
Acceptance
Imperial
Russian Purchases
Ottoman
Empire and Turkish Contracts
From Estonia
to the Spanish Civil War
Paraguayan
and Salvadoran Contracts
Service in
the British Navy and German Police
The Husqvarna Model 1907
The FN Browning Model 1905
(1906)
Imperial
Russian General Staff Contracts
Imperial
German Pistols
Shanghai
Municipal Police Pistols
1940: Early
German Occupation production
The FN Browning Model 1910
FN Browning
1910 in Belgian Service
FN
Browning 1910 in The Netherlands
French &
Syrian Police Orders
Yugoslav City
Police Use
The
Model 1910 in Australia
The
Model 1910 in Finland
FN
1910 in World War II, Germany and Japan
Postwar
Military Contracts
The Modele 1910 Grand Browning
The FN Browning Model 1922
The
Many Yugoslav Orders
The
Many Dutch Variations
The
Mexican Contracts
The FN
1922 for Greece
The
Turkish Contracts
The
French Orders
The
Romanian Contract
The FN
1922 in Scandinavia: Denmark & Finland
World War II German Model 1922 Pistols
WaA613
Accepted Pistols
WaA103
Accepted Pistols
WaA140
Accepted Pistols
Eagle
N Pistols
Postwar
Belgian Government Contracts
Postwar
German Contracts
The FN Baby Browning
The Grand Rendement (High Efficiency)
The FN Browning Model 1935 GP (High Power)
Belgian
Prewar Contracts
Lithuanian
High Powers
Estonian
Contracts
The
Paraguayan Order
Argentine
Contracts
Chinese
Orders
The
High Power in Finland
Slotted
Fixed-Sighted Pistols: The French GP
World War II German High Power Pistols
Captured
and Seized Pistols
Pistols
assembled prior to WaA613
WaA613
Pistols
WaA103
Pistols
WaA140
Pistols
Eagle
N Pistols
Wartime Factory Reworks
Post
Liberation Pistols
The Danish Orders
Belgian
Contracts: Regent and Royal
Colonial
Sales: The Congo
The
Netherlands adopts the High Power
The
High Power in West Germany and Austria
The High
Power in Israel
The
British L9A1
The
alleged Oman Contract
U.S.
Law Enforcement Imports: Howco
Mass
Production, Developments of the High Power
The 100-Series Pistols
The Browning Arms Company Pistols
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