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Tidaltown said:
This is a picture of some of my WWI pistols. I am picking up a 1907 Roth-Streyr either today or Monday. It will be replacing that 1903 hammerless Colt that's merely holding a space. Hoping my Ruby arrives next week. To be fair, the 1911 pictured is WWII vintage.
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I added some pics of my WWI mouse guns in the Gun Porn thread I started over in the Watercooler. I've barely begun on collecting the main sidearms for the various powers in WWI (ie I have a Steyr Hahn and a Roth Steyr but that's about it).
 
Deathroll said:
I added some pics of my WWI mouse guns in the Gun Porn thread I started over in the Watercooler. I've barely begun on collecting the main sidearms for the various powers in WWI (ie I have a Steyr Hahn and a Roth Steyr but that's about it).
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Got my Ruby semi-auto 7.65 pistol today. It's in excellent shape with a relatively low serial number (41276E) so I'm relatively certain it was produced between 1915 and 1920. However, it has no military markings on it, it's stainless steel, so I'm sure it was never issued to a French military unit. But it was only $400, is in almost excellent shape, and it at least somewhat represents the French semi-auto sidearm of WWI. So now I have the German (C96 and Luger), Austro-Hungarian (1907 Roth-Steyr, two 1912 Steyr-Hahns, and two 1905 Mannlichers), French Ruby, and US 1911 Colt (it has a WWII slide). Also have a Russian Nagant revolver and a British Webley Mk VI revolver. That leaves the Italian Glisenti but I cannot locate one under $1500. I'll be bidding on a 1914 Mauser pistol in a week and I'll likely stop at that because all the others I'd like are just too expensive. However, Rock Island has a few British Webley & Scott semi-autos up for auction, but they'll likely go too high for my blood. I'm surprised you got that Roth-Sauer pistol. All of them I've seen are around $3500 and up.
 
Tidaltown said:
Got my Ruby semi-auto 7.65 pistol today. It's in excellent shape with a relatively low serial number (41276E) so I'm relatively certain it was produced between 1915 and 1920. However, it has no military markings on it, it's stainless steel, so I'm sure it was never issued to a French military unit. But it was only $400, is in almost excellent shape, and it at least somewhat represents the French semi-auto sidearm of WWI. So now I have the German (C96 and Luger), Austro-Hungarian (1907 Roth-Steyr, two 1912 Steyr-Hahns, and two 1905 Mannlichers), French Ruby, and US 1911 Colt (it has a WWII slide). Also have a Russian Nagant revolver and a British Webley Mk VI revolver. That leaves the Italian Glisenti but I cannot locate one under $1500. I'll be bidding on a 1914 Mauser pistol in a week and I'll likely stop at that because all the others I'd like are just too expensive. However, Rock Island has a few British Webley & Scott semi-autos up for auction, but they'll likely go too high for my blood. I'm surprised you got that Roth-Sauer pistol. All of them I've seen are around $3500 and up.
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I saw that the Roth Sauer was missing a couple parts and figured most people would not want to go through the pain of having parts fabricated to make it complete. I've been down that road a few times before so I knew what was entailed. That's what kept the price so low. I had to spend a lot of time finding a good part fabricator and it will take a long wait....probably a year...before I get it back and its complete. But in the end I'll have it for $1250-1500 instead of the $4k to $5K I've seen the others go for. BTW, I posted a bunch of my WWI mouse guns over on the gun porn thread in the Watercooler board here. I still need to get the British mouse guns and I need a Belgian FN 1900 as well as one of the Colt Model 1903s the US military used, but I do have the French, Italian, German and Hapsburg mouse guns.
 
Deathroll said:
I saw that the Roth Sauer was missing a couple parts and figured most people would not want to go through the pain of having parts fabricated to make it complete. I've been down that road a few times before so I knew what was entailed. That's what kept the price so low. I had to spend a lot of time finding a good part fabricator and it will take a long wait....probably a year...before I get it back and its complete. But in the end I'll have it for $1250-1500 instead of the $4k to $5K I've seen the others go for. BTW, I posted a bunch of my WWI mouse guns over on the gun porn thread in the Watercooler board here. I still need to get the British mouse guns and I need a Belgian FN 1900 as well as one of the Colt Model 1903s the US military used, but I do have the French, Italian, German and Hapsburg mouse guns.
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Wow, Deathroll. I found that thread on your Watercooler site and I saw your collection. I am so envious. But my goal is to collect the standard semi-auto sidearm for every major WWI belligerent. I already own most of the long guns. It's just that I cannot make myself pay a fortune for the rest of the pistols I need. I love these semi-autos because to me they are more or less works of industrial/military art.
 
Deathroll said:
I added some pics of my WWI mouse guns in the Gun Porn thread I started over in the Watercooler. I've barely begun on collecting the main sidearms for the various powers in WWI (ie I have a Steyr Hahn and a Roth Steyr but that's about it).
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Do you talk about anything besides guns?
 
Tidaltown said:
Wow, Deathroll. I found that thread on your Watercooler site and I saw your collection. I am so envious. But my goal is to collect the standard semi-auto sidearm for every major WWI belligerent. I already own most of the long guns. It's just that I cannot make myself pay a fortune for the rest of the pistols I need. I love these semi-autos because to me they are more or less works of industrial/military art.
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I still need a Webley 455, a WWI Mauser C-96, a WW1 Luger, a WW1 Artillery Luger, a Glisenti, a Rast Gasser a WWI 1911 and the remaining mouse guns I don't have yet. ie FN 1900, Colt 1903 and some of the British ones.

That will take me YEARS to get. For example a nice artillery luger with the full rig, snail drum, etc will run me about $6K all by itself. A good Imperial marked Mauser C-96 will run $3500-$4000. I still have a bunch of WWII pistols to get first. Then once that's done, I'll move on to the long guns. Since I stick to a budget of about $10-12K per year, it will take many more years to get all the guns I want. This hobby is not for poors, that's for sure. The good news with this hobby is you can always get your money back if you really need to.
 
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