Unique Model 16

[dhusker]

Originally posted by davidkachel
What you have is a "Ruby" made in Northern Spain.
Now the problem is, which flavor of Ruby? There were nearly 40 Spanish factories all making pretty much the same pistol. To make matters worse, some were intentionally mislabeled to make it appear they came from somewhere other than Spain because of the horrible reputation of Spanish guns at the time. Hence, French and English model names that often make no sense or seem childish.

These were cheap, mostly junk guns supplied primarily to the French (WWI) because the Germans got hold of French small arms factories early in the war and the French therefore had to look elsewhere.

Nazi proofs on these guns are very likely to be faked.

Thanks for all the good info. I have a question to ask. How does one tell that the gun is a
Ruby and not authentic? Thanks.

Dan