somd_mustangs
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- Jul 1, 2012
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This is a kind of arcane variation but it's also the kind of stuff I really dig (late-war weirdness). When the Germans got run out of Belgium, they looted a lot of the tooling and other machinery at the FN factory... but left behind all of the parts and partially assembled pistols. This FN 1922 was assembled by the Belgians immediately after the factory was re-captured in September 1944, using already machined and serialed parts. It's the very last of the "C" block FN 1922's and has only Belgian proofs, not German. At the end of the occupation, the C blocks were usually pretty crudely machined and this pistol shows some of that if you look close (front sight for instance). Anyway, I'm glad RIA didn't identify it properly and called it "non-professional refinish" - which it most definitely is not, it's original 
Bonus points for 3 spare magazines, including a pre-war 9mm (380), a early war WaA140 proof .32 ACP (in rough shape) and a probably early post-war parkerized .32 ACP.
Once the few C block parts were used up, the un-numbered parts manufactured under the occupation were assembled into the "A" prefix pistols, which are a whole 'nother topic.
Bonus points for 3 spare magazines, including a pre-war 9mm (380), a early war WaA140 proof .32 ACP (in rough shape) and a probably early post-war parkerized .32 ACP.
Once the few C block parts were used up, the un-numbered parts manufactured under the occupation were assembled into the "A" prefix pistols, which are a whole 'nother topic.
