A FN 1900 pistol with serial number n° 1!! The markings EC on the side are the initials of the owner. Mario vs donkey kong minis march again music 1. Emile Courant, he was the chief of the fire department in Antwerp during the war.

I sold a model 1900 with the stock, both mags and cleaning rod (all matching numbers, if I remember correctly only one mag was numbered but the rod and long mag were numbered). One scratch otherwise 98%+. Sold it to a guy from Illinois who was at the little Michigan farm town gun show. Kind of miss the rig but it paid for part of my wedding back in 2001, still married so making some correct decisions. (I kept the KU luger that came with the Browning, still one of my prized possesions.

Both came back with the same vet, he died and the family sold them. In retrospect I would have asked for more of the vets details to help with the KU story) Jim.

OK, let's properly identify this pistol. It is a CZ-27, made in Czechoslovakia under German occupation during World War II. The 'fnh' you undoubtedly are seeing on the slide is NOT 'Fabrique Nationale Herstal' but rather the German code for the Czech factory where that pistol was made.

It is not a FN Model 1922, nor a Browning. NCondition is absolutely everything on these pistols, and any special unit markings or rare variations can double or even triple the value to a collector.

Please provide more information, and digital pictures if possible, to sales@countrygunsmith.net and we will do our best to help you out with an appraisal or possibly even purchase the pistol. Nwww.countrygunsmith.net n. Now I know what happened to the AntiqueGuns.com crystal ball!

How did you get from a Browning Model 22 to a CZ-27? The 'Pistole Modell 27 Kaliber 7.65' was obviously copied directly from the left side of the slide and is the correct marking for a CZ27. At some point someone has misidentified this pistol as a Model 1922 Browning, undoubtedly because of the 'fnh' markings that a wartime CZ27 would show. Echolink el 700 fta latest software update.

Neither the FN Model 1922 or the commercially marked Browning version have the markings 'Model 22' so that makes the correct identification easy.