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Originally Posted by Eugen
Good looking pistol and I love that leather holster. 
The pistol looks almost identical to my 1938 Tokarev TT33, a Fedor Tokarev copy of John Browning's original FN version. |
That's probably not a coincidence. Imperial Russia ordered some 11.0000 1903 from Browning for police use... And they were fitted with shoulder stocks.
So the outward looks were familiar to them and maybe well liked.
Mechanically Tokarevs were quite different, much more similar to the 1911 design.