Any Info on an old pistol - SA
Hey guys...
Saw the damnedest pistol today I think I ever saw. I'm not sure of the spelling, but, I believe it to be called "Lignose".
It appeared to have some french language on the paper in the box and appeared to be a self-cocking SA in .25 Cal. Looked like a Raven .25 - somewhat.
Front of the trigger guard was open, so you pulled the trigger and it cocked then I guess on the next pull it would go off.
Saw it at a small show south county. Anybody have any further info on this. Guy was asking about $125 and since I have a Baby Browning had no interest...but, am curious.
ThanX
Greeker
Saw the damnedest pistol today I think I ever saw. I'm not sure of the spelling, but, I believe it to be called "Lignose".
It appeared to have some french language on the paper in the box and appeared to be a self-cocking SA in .25 Cal. Looked like a Raven .25 - somewhat.
Front of the trigger guard was open, so you pulled the trigger and it cocked then I guess on the next pull it would go off.
Saw it at a small show south county. Anybody have any further info on this. Guy was asking about $125 and since I have a Baby Browning had no interest...but, am curious.
ThanX
Greeker
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Should be German instead of French. Sounds like one of the 'Einhand' type pocket pistols made under the Lignose name, with a missing part. The gun was designed to be cocked by pulling rearward on the front of the trigger guard. 0 -
The pistol you saw at the gun show was no doubt a Lignose "Einhand" self cocking pistol. The design is actually from the older Bergmann Co. and was designed by Wytold Chylewski shortly before WWI. These little pistols are unusual but not really rare, tens of thousands were produced. I've seen like new ones move in the $500+ range, but most sell for around $200 in average shooting condition.
There was a Chinese copy of this pistol imported briefly in the late 1980's, but otherwise I am unaware of any other production pistol which ever used this one handed cocking system. The experimental White-Merril .45 pistol submitted for the US pistol trials of 1907 did use a simular cocking system but the force need to cock a large caliber automatic like a .45 was so great that the idea was a failure...and so was the White-Merill when compared to the Browning designed 1911 Government Model.
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Thank You for the info. More curious than anything else. You guys scratched my itch. 0 -
The gun that Mark Christian was the Norinco Mod 77 B 9m/m.I bought and sold three of them back in 1992 You cocked it by pulling back on the front of the trigger guard.They worked very well.
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