The little Dreyse is nearly identical in size and profile to the 1906 FN Browning, with which it was clearly I would very much like to collect more date information like this-if you have an old receipt or other To indicate that very few of these pistols were produced in the first few years of production. It was for serial number 7485 and was dated 4 March 1915. Production ended with the end of World War I, though guns continued to be sold from stock until well after the war.Ī correspondent from Germany sent me a copy of a receipt from RM&M for the sale of a Dreyse Vest Pocket pistol. It may be that the gun was so new when the catalogue was in preparation that no image of it was available The Deutsche Waffenfabrik Georg Knaak catalogue ofġ910 does not picture the Dreyse Vest Pocket, but does list a seven-shot 6.35mm Dreyse. Not cleared up until 1910.” Both guns appear in the ALFA catalogue of 1911, which must have been in preparation as early as 1910. Matthews states that the Dreyse 6.35mm pistol was designed in 1908 but “.probably was not offered commercially until 1909 (or possibly 1910), as the patent situation was Hogg states that it was “ntroduced shortly after the 7.65mm gun.,” but doesn’t give a Production of the Dreyse Vest Pocket may have begun late in 1909, after the German patent wasįiled. Secured or dismounted.” The patent drawings do not show the lockwork of the gun, but give details of the barrel, slide, recoil spring, and locking bar. For this purpose a sliding or otherwise movable locking bar is provided at the upper part of the firearm which enables the barrel to be easily The fire-arm can be easily mounted and dismounted by hand. in which the parts which must be dismounted in order to thoroughly clean have as their object to provide a fire-arm. Retention and of dismantling the gun: “The present invention relates to improvements. The British patent covers only the method of barrel Patent had been applied for on 8 September 1909, though I have been unable to locate a copy of the German Patent. The Dreyse Vest Pocket pistol was patented in Great Britain in 1910 (British patent 1910-20660) by Louis Schmeisser. By 1906 Schmeisser had designed the 7.65mm Dreyse pistol for RM&M, by 1908 he had designed theĦ.35mm Dreyse Vest Pocket pistol, and by 1909 or 1910 he had designed the 9mm Parabellum Dreyse pistol. Hobart states that he became the chief designer for RM&M in 1902, which would be about right, since his last pistol for Bergmann (the Bergmann Mars) was designed in 1901. RM&M used the Dreyse name for their small arms.Īccurate information about Louis Schmeisser is difficult to come by, but F.W.A. Metallwaaren & Maschinenfabrik company (RM&M, later known as Rheinmetall), located in the town of Sömmerda in Thuringia, Germany. After 1901 the Dreyse company was owned by the Rheinische
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