burgo;aka arminius??
i saw a burgo .32 s&w and it looks a lot like my arminius. identical if they were both cromed.both are german made and had the same symbols on them.are they made by the same company???
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My reference says there two different companies.
Maybe your getting it confused with the Rohm RG10 revolver, it was supposed to have been sold under the Burgo name.
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i'm sure it was a burgo model 108.i've never heard of'em,but it took me a year to find out arminius is F.I.E. 0 -
Here's Chapter & Verse: "Burgsmuller, Karl Burgsmuller, Kreiensen, West Germany. Burgo: Regent. Herr Burgsmuller markets two models of revolver, the 'Burgo' and the 'Regent', inscribed with his name and address. The 'Burgo' is, in fact the Rohm RG10 (q.v.); the 'Regent' is of unknown parentage. This latter in .22LR chambering , resembles the Colt Police Positive in general outline, but the cylinder lock is operated by a knurled sleeve around the ejector rod. It apears to be a well-made weapon of reasonable accuracy and reliability."
"Rohm, Rohm GmbH, Sontheim/Brenz, W. Germany. The Rohm Company are very much like the Manufacture d'Armes de Pyrenees, in that they produce a range of pistols under their own name, and proceed to sell them under a dozen other names as well."
"Weirauch. Herman Weirauch Waffenfabrik, Melrichstadt, W. Germany. Weiruach was in business in pre-war years as the 'H. Weirauch Gewehr und Fahrradfabrik' of Zella Mehlis, and during the war years, was concerned with contract manufacture of military arms, using the code group 'eea'. At the end of the war, the factory went into Soviet hands and the company ceased to exist. It was revived in the 1950s at Mellrichstadt in Bavaria and, among other things, went into pistol production. Arminius. Weirauch appear to have taken over the old trade mark of Fried. Pickert, but we do not know of the circumstances surrounding this transfer. Four models of 'Arminius' are currently know; they are all solid-frame revolvers with cylinders swinging out to the right and retained by a knurled sleeve surrounding the ejector rod. All are double-action; the basic models are with fixed sights and plain grips, but there are a variety of options on sights and grips."
Obviously a relationship here in design and manufacturing, but one which is not yet fully understood by U.S. shooters and collectors. Your observations about the similarity of your revolver and a Burgo are no doubt correct. Arminius, however, is not FIE (Firearms Import Export Corp.), which is defunct, but which did import Arminius among other brands. The symbols you observed in common on both guns are probably proof marks, common to all modern German pistols/revolvers.0 -
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