FN 1922 PISTOL WaA140

[Bill Grist]

Enjoy this FN 1922 produced under German occupation of Belgium. With Luftwaffe holster and two WaA140 marked magazine a new one for the collection.. BILL

[redsled]

Very Nice

[Wagriff]

Ugly little guns, but they were Great shooters and very well made. They always looked to me like they should have a silencer screwed onto the muzzle...lol I particularly like the Luft holster-very nice to see!

[Hummel]

I have a very similar one but mine has Bakelite grips instead of wood grips. Nice piece and thanks for sharing.

Hummel

[Bill Grist]

Ugly little guns, but they were Great shooters and very well made. They always looked to me like they should have a silencer screwed onto the muzzle...lol I particularly like the Luft holster-very nice to see!

Interesting that you would say "that it looks like it should have a silencer screwed onto the muzzle". In the movie Dr. NO with Sean Connery the pistol that he uses when he shoots Professor DENT is indeed a FN 1922 with a silencer, and not a PPK as stated, that he used all the time. The end cap of the FN 1922 unscrewed very easily, thus a silencer was attached to it, fake for the movies or not...BILL

[lithgow]

I've only seen 'Dr No' once and that was a few years ago now-at the start of it, Bond was packing a .25 cal Beretta which M then forced him to hand in for a PPK replacement of much greater effect!
For some reason FN 1922s are far easier to find here in WA than the equally mass produced FN 1910s.

[PRE]

Nice one Bill. I have one that looks just like yours, but is Eagle/N marked instead of bearing a WaA.
Pat

[habicht]

A friend of mine once said, that if you dig long enough in any back yard in the US you will eventuall find a 1922 Browning.

[Bill Grist]

I've only seen 'Dr No' once and that was a few years ago now-at the start of it, Bond was packing a .25 cal Beretta which M then forced him to hand in for a PPK replacement of much greater effect!
For some reason FN 1922s are far easier to find here in WA than the equally mass produced FN 1910s.

What is interesting in the Bond book Dr. NO he carries a .25cal./6.35mm Beretta Model 418, but in the movie when he hands the Beretta over to M it's a full size Beretta Model 1934 in Cal 9mmK, which was a more effective Caliber than the 7.65mm/.32 auto of the PPK...BILL

[Bill Grist]

A friend of mine once said, that if you dig long enough in any back yard in the US you will eventuall find a 1922 Browning.

This is a true statement for sure. BILL