A knowledgeable expert in early Spanish firearms says that the button was required to be added before the pistols could be issued. And he confirmed the manufacture date as being somewhere between 1914 and 1918.
John: No, it's not. It'd be pretty cool if it was. However, it is a family member. I figure that my father didn't have a sweetheart or girlfriend when he joined and went to the European theater and that he used a photo of his kid sister instead. It's a photo of my aunt who was likely 15 or 16 in the photo. Still pretty neat.
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