A fine 7.63mm Mauser C96 cone-hammer self-loading pistol, no. 2100, c. 1896 The round barrel with block-mounted blade fore-sight, the top of the breech stamped 'Waffenfabrik Mauser Oberndorf A/N', the receiver with graduated tangent-sight, integral magazine, the butt with two-piece grooved wooden grips engraved RJBH, lanyard-ring, 5½in. barrel, German nitro proof With its wooden holster numbered en suite and stamped B. Hippisley together with its leather carrier Fußnoten Richard John Baynton Hippisley OBE CBE, he became an Honorary Lieutenant Colonel of the North Somerset Yeomanry in 1908. He had an interest in wireless telegraphy and while working at the Lizard in 1912 picked up messages from the Titanic. In 1914 he was made Commander RNVR. He set up a series of listening posts which enable the British to receive low wavelength signals from the German Navy. Other listening posts enabled the Royal Artillery to hear Zeppelin orders and predict their raids over Britain. This pistol may be held under both catagories of s.7 Heritage Pistols in the U.K.
A fine 7.63mm Mauser C96 cone-hammer self-loading pistol, no. 2100, c. 1896 The round barrel with block-mounted blade fore-sight, the top of the breech stamped 'Waffenfabrik Mauser Oberndorf A/N', the receiver with graduated tangent-sight, integral magazine, the butt with two-piece grooved wooden grips engraved RJBH, lanyard-ring, 5½in. barrel, German nitro proof With its wooden holster numbered en suite and stamped B. Hippisley together with its leather carrier Fußnoten Richard John Baynton Hippisley OBE CBE, he became an Honorary Lieutenant Colonel of the North Somerset Yeomanry in 1908. He had an interest in wireless telegraphy and while working at the Lizard in 1912 picked up messages from the Titanic. In 1914 he was made Commander RNVR. He set up a series of listening posts which enable the British to receive low wavelength signals from the German Navy. Other listening posts enabled the Royal Artillery to hear Zeppelin orders and predict their raids over Britain. This pistol may be held under both catagories of s.7 Heritage Pistols in the U.K.
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