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Here is my French 1955A pistol. It is from the middle of the B serial number block. Neat little weapon. Reportedly, fewer than 30,000 of these little gems were manufactured under German control. The cartridge is 7.65 French Longue.

Interestingly, SIG later purchased rights to certain of the patents from this pistol to build their famous SIG P210.

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I have a three lever VIS 35 that I have owned for many years. It does carry the proper German Waffenamt markings. It is a beautiful weapon that I enjoy shooting occasionally. Had it out today and there was a problem that I just can’t figure out.

The hammer drop safety works fine when the chamber is empty, however it will not engage and drop the hammer when a round is in the chamber. I have not fired it for quite some time, however it has always been meticulously cleaned after each outing, so it is not dirty. I have tried several brands of ammo and still the hammer drop feature will not work on a loaded chamber.

I seem to recall that I was able to lower the hammer safely on a loaded round, but now am not sure because it has been so long since I last fired the weapon.

Is the hammer drop designed to work on a loaded chamber? If so, any ideas as to why it will not work?

Thank you!

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Can Anyone Identify this Badge ?
I believe it is a Soviet Naval Ship Badge.
Similar to Regimental Badges
Ship "Zharki" ???

Thanks,

Polishboy

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All,

After seeing a couple of very high quality Type 3 gunto, including the koshirae, I got to re-reading Nick Komiya & Chris Bowen’s dicussion of the origins of the Type 3 (http://www.warrelics…version-584796/). The predominent thought is that it was designed as a more durable (koshirae) gunto that was also cheaper than the average standard Type 94/98. But almost every one I’ve seen have really good looking blades (mine included) and a couple of them now, (one owned by IJASWORDS) have REALLY high quality upgrades to the koshirae.

Any thoughts about WHY the Type 3s have such nice blades if they were originally designed to be cheap?

On another note, I think it was Komiya-san who was interested in seeing any Type 3s date prior to 1942. There were 2 posted recently. I don’t remember who had them, exactly, but I’m trying to back-track, to get them.

Fortunes Of War Militaria made another update to its site today. We have added a nice Hachimaki or Headband to the "Miscellaneous Consigned" category. The headband has a large red sun in the center and the black kanji characters for "Heroism-Loyalty and Bravery" around it. A very nice piece!

Not a perfect badge but if it’s genuine than I can upgrade a little later. Thank-you.

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