Beautiful "Borchardt C-93" pistol, eight shots, 7.65 mm centerfire. Round rifled barrel, thunder-stamped "B" and "U" under crown and stamped "172.28" on the barrel. Breech with the same punch "B" and "U" under crown, engraved "System Borchardt Patent Deutch Waffen Und Munitions Fabriken Berlin". Stamped on the top "DRP N° 75837". Trigger stamped 3146. Magazine stamped 2140 on the wood. Walnut stock plates squared and varnished. With an adaptable stick out of varnished wood, metal and screw of tightening (misses leather, small traces of blows and scratch). Length gun: 35,5 cm - Length gun with stick: 60 cm T.B.E. In its original tanning. One of the first semi-automatic pistols conceived in 1893 by the engineer Hugo Borchardt, functioning by the short recoil of the barrel and the toggle breech.

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