magazine prototype P-08 mfg. 1901

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Originally Posted by HUGO REVELES

The next iteration was the Model 1906. The first few 1906 pistols retained the early 10-round blind magazine, but the design was soon revised to use a more modern but smaller capacity 8-round removable magazine (which would serve as the model for the Luger P08 magazine). The Model 1906 was chambered for a proprietary cartridge, the 7.65 Frommer. This model is also very rare, with only about 800 made. They were tested by the Austrian military, but lost out to the Roth-Steyr (which would be made in the same factory where Frommer worked).

Hugo,

I'm not making much sense of this. If the Frommer 's 8-round magazine was introduced in 1906, how could it have been the prototype for Parabellum, which used the 8-round mag in 1900?

Also, I'm wondering when an aluminum bottom was first used on any pistol--Borchardt and Luger were wood back then, which material persisted for this purpose for 20-30 years for the Luger. (I have no idea when Al was used by other mfgrs.)

The angular compression spring Gerben points out--when did any pistol first use the radial compression spring in its mag?

I don't think the round that sits in the mag in the pic. is .22, judging its appearance/proportions--but it might explain a 10-round capacity for the initial blind mag system.