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Side Arms that Shaped World History
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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
This edition is out-of-print, sold out
FN Browning Pistols, Side-Arms that Shaped World History is the quintessential reference book on FN Browning pistols and reflects the continued work of Anthony Vanderlinden on the topic. This new edition includes information found in the original issue titled Belgian Browning Pistols while building on the first (2009) edition of FN Browning Pistols. Specific elements aid collectors in identifying production periods, model variants and modern frauds. The book explains many popular misconceptions on FN pistols. A complete content listing is provided below.
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Additions and Specifics of the 2013 Second Edition
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
Content of the 2013 Second Edition
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
