Help ID a pistol

[BigCity]

Actually, it is more like a guessing game. A friend from work told me about a pistol his father brought back from world war 2, since stolen.

It was a .25 caliber, with very tiny "red" grips.

He still has the holster which is a flap holster with a pocket on it for a second mag.

Any ideas?

 

[Joel_MD]

Could have been a Baby Browning or Colt 1908 Vest Pocket. May be wrong, but I believe the military issued a few Baby Brownings back in the day.

 

[browning guy]

could be several diffrent guns alot of .25s were produced all over Europe back then.
A german officer could carry any side arm really, so it would not have to be a military gun.

 

[lee2]

 

[fivepointstar]

really.....a picture would be better than a written description

 

[HappyCamper]

Walther Model 8? Some of those had red-ish/orange-ish/brown grips

 

[lee2]

Glock 7 . It's a porcelain gun made in Germany. Doesn't show up on your airport X-ray machines.

 

[mvee]

ppk?

 

[fivepointstar]

its a Chevrolet P-47 Mustang in .39 caliber

 

[BigCity]

In the OP I mentioned that it was stolen...

 

[Threeband]

Huge quantities of 1903 Browning knock-offs were churned out by small shops around the town of Eibar in the Basque region of northern Spain, from WWI through the mid '30s. They are usually called "Eibar" or "Ruby" type pistols. Probably most were .32 caliber, but many were .25.

There is a very good chance, maybe a probability, that it was a "Ruby-type".

http://www.forgottenweapons.com/other-handguns/eibar-ruby/

The bulbous trigger-block safety is typical. Brownings had a superior safety at the rear of the frame. Many Eibars also had curved grasping grooves, cut on a lathe.

These nasty things saw a lot of military use, believe it or not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_pistol


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[thegoose]

Could be a ppk but they were .380 possibly a Manchurin?