Designed by Robert Browning and built in Belgium as Colt refused to produce it. Production ran from 1912 till 1983 and was originally designed for the German Luftwaffe (Airforce) issued to their pilots. It was then issued to the Military and Police and not available to private citizens The serial numbers are hard to run down, but this is a pre-war gun made sometime before 1941 and valuable in that respect. A FN1910/1922 like this one was used to assassinate Arch Duke Ferdinand of Austria and his wife in 1914 precipitating in World War I I paid $350 for it three years ago. Dad needs a little help. Designed by Robert Browning and built in Belgium as Colt refused to produce it. That's JOHN Browning, the best known gun designer in the Free World.

An FN M1910, serial number 19074, chambered in.380 ACP was the handgun used by Gavrilo Princip to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, the act that precipitated the First World War.

I doubt Colt was interested, they had the popular 1903.32 and 1908.380. The 1910 was directed at European sales. Production ran from 1912 till 1983 and was originally designed for the German Luftwaffe (Airforce) issued to their pilots.

The 1910 was not much used by military forces, it was a police and commercial sales model. It was then issued to the Military and Police and not available to private citizens The 1910/22 you show was designed for an FN contract with the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (now Yugoslavia, pretty much.) Other customers include Holland, Belgium, France, Sweden, and Denmark, and more sales to Yugoslavia. Dynaclave 613r manual. Some for army issue, some for police; some 7.65/.32, some 9mm Browning Short/.380. The Germans did not get any great number until they invaded Belgium in 1940 and put the FN plant back to work making weapons for the Nazis. They held the FN plant in WW I but the Belgians were more stubborn then and would not work for the Boche. The serial numbers are hard to run down, but this is a pre-war gun made sometime before 1941 and valuable in that respect. Maybe so, but there are a lot of things about this particular gun that greatly reduce its dollar value.

First, it is rusty. Second, it has a simple adjustable rear sight and crude thumb rest left grip panel, probably added to gain BATF import points for surplus sale in the USA after GCA 1968. Not at all original as issued to whoever.

A FN1910/1922 like this one was used to assassinate Arch Duke Ferdinand of Austria and his wife in 1914 precipitating in World War I Pop's going to have to do some 'splainin to tell how a gun designed in 1922 and introduced in 1923 was used to shoot anybody whatsoever in 1914. The conventional wisdom was the assassin used a plain 1910 but there is a good deal of contrary opinion that he had the older Browning/FN model of 1900. I paid $350 for it three years ago Much more than I would give for the condition and alterations. Okay, I have dug out some info from Anthony Vanderlinden's 'FN Browning Pistols'. The serial number, left-side slide legend style, the right-side grip style, and the star marking and letter B on the right-side frame all point to a pistol made in the late 40's or early 50's and supplied after 1948 to the British Sector Berlin Police.