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Post by cmdrcody on Jan 22, 2024 20:19:25 GMT -5
Got this what I was told was an Astra 1916 from a friend. Not in the best of shape but three handguns for $10 each so I can have more to do in an already busy schedule.  |
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Post by jonnyc on Jan 23, 2024 9:18:55 GMT -5
Neat! Looks almost Viet Cong-ish. Is it complete?
What else did you get?
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Post by cmdrcody on Jan 23, 2024 11:12:56 GMT -5
It is complete, but I'll know more after I clean it up some. The magazine feed lips are not good after inserting 5 of the 10 .32 ACP rounds its designed to hold the spring pressure pushed the extra rounds out.
Being this was a Spanish made French WWI pistol, this could have been on the losing side of the French Foreign Legion at Dien Bien Phu.
I got this, a Frontier Bulldog, and a Hopkins & Allen all for $10 each
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Post by woodyb on Jan 23, 2024 11:57:57 GMT -5
It seems like a classic Ruby pistol design. I believe the french got variable spanish gun manufacturers to produce these cheap pistols during world war 1. They needed a lot of pistols to augment their supply.
It might be world war 2 bring back, these pistols were still seeing wide use in France by the french resistance and Vichy collaborators.
The AG mark is a french acceptance mark for the manufacturer "Arizmendi y Goenaga Francisco" in the town of Eibar. Normaly the slide should say "Pistolet Automatic Ideal". Apparently this manufacturer was one of the first to supply to the french army in world war 1. The company was dissolved 1936 after the spanish civil war.
It's in rough shape, but if only this pistol could tell its story. It might have seen action in both world wars.
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Post by cmdrcody on Jan 23, 2024 22:00:55 GMT -5
It’s rough, there were so many different Spanish companies making these “Ruby’s” and with the production standards of those days many minor differences between manufacturers.
While rough, it is numbers matching including it’s only mag.
I now have an additional 7.65 (.32 ACP) firearm acquired in the last three months or so.
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Post by cmdrcody on Feb 6, 2024 12:18:31 GMT -5
After getting the correct grips (and fitting them), cleanup and a quick range trip I’m now at $35 for the gun and pleased with it. It’s a 110 year old C and R.   |
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Post by woodyb on Feb 6, 2024 15:51:47 GMT -5
Looks good for having served in the trenches!
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Post by cmdrcody on Apr 3, 2024 18:41:04 GMT -5
My Eibar made French Ruby in its WWI era French holster, with my Mauser 1914 in its German holster. They could have been in trenches on different sides of no man’s land.  My Ruby showing off its WWI French holster.  |
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