FN 1900 - Real or Fake???

[alvin]

This is not a Chinese copy though.

Really nice Chinese copies, no matter it's Broomhandle, or FN 1900, were made by big factories (relatively) with good equipments and skillful workers. They did not apply fake marks on their products. Clear identification was either written in Hanzi or Latin characters on those "hi-fi" copies. Capable people felt proud on their products, that's same everywhere.

Crude copies were made by small factories, or even by blacksmith. On those things, we see "Wauser", "Mauser" etc. Not because Chinese at that time were fooled to believe those crude guns were German or Belgian products, it's fashionable to own pieces having some foreign letters at that time, no one really read those decoration letters anyway, and those copies had one big advantage over foreign products, they were dirt cheap..... the reasoning process was not unlike today's collector could buy a few reblued C&R, due to cost reason.

Picture of a high quality copy: