{"id":11693,"date":"2020-06-08T11:30:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T11:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/08\/fn-1900-for-the-russian-imperial-army-fencing-gymnastics-school\/"},"modified":"2020-07-18T10:47:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T15:47:15","slug":"fn-1900-for-the-russian-imperial-army-fencing-gymnastics-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/08\/fn-1900-for-the-russian-imperial-army-fencing-gymnastics-school\/","title":{"rendered":"FN 1900 for the Russian Imperial Army Fencing &#038; Gymnastics School"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GApT7IU0Pps?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\/home<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of Legacy Collectibles, we have an FN 1900 to look at today that was purchased by the Russian Imperial Army&#8217;s primary Gymnastics and Fencing School (\u0413\u043b\u0430\u0432\u043d\u0430\u044f \u0433\u0438\u043c\u043d\u0430\u0441\u0442\u0438\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043a\u043e-\u0444\u0435\u0445\u0442\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043b\u044c\u043d\u0430\u044f \u0448\u043a\u043e\u043b\u0430). That was an institution established in 1909 to train officers who would become fencing and gymnastics instructors for the Army at large. <\/p>\n<p>Russian officers could carry private-purchase handguns from a list of approved designs, which included the FN 1900, 1903, and 1905. A bunch of Army schools and institutions bought batches of FN pistols between 1907 and 1914 for resale to officers. These will often, but not always, be marked with a crossed pair of Mosin Nagant rifles.<\/p>\n<p>There was no formal adoption of the FN 1900 by Russia, and so there was no large Army order specifying that crossed-rifle marking. Instead, small contracts were made by institutions, who could make their own choices about how the guns would be marked.<\/p>\n<p>One of the interesting and distinctive elements about these Russian purchases is that while some of their guns were blued, a significant number were ordered with a factory nickel-plated finish, which is rare on FN pistols. This example shows very nicely how FN left a few small parts (magazine release, trigger, safety) in a black primed state instead of plating them. It had been found that when those parts were plated, the change in surface thickness could cause fitting problems. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Max Popenker for the marking assistance, and to Legacy Collectibles for the loan of the pistol! You can check out their YouTube channel here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCesjdfSFVwNgqa299Bf3Zlw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCesjdfSFVwNgqa299Bf3Zlw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contact:<br \/>\nForgotten Weapons<br \/>\n6281 N. Oracle #36270<br \/>\nTucson, AZ 85740<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons https:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons Courtesy of Legacy Collectibles, we have an FN 1900 to look at today that was purchased by the Russian Imperial Army&#8217;s primary Gymnastics and Fencing School (\u0413\u043b\u0430\u0432\u043d\u0430\u044f \u0433\u0438\u043c\u043d\u0430\u0441\u0442\u0438\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043a\u043e-\u0444\u0435\u0445\u0442\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043b\u044c\u043d\u0430\u044f \u0448\u043a\u043e\u043b\u0430). That was an institution established in 1909 to train officers who would become fencing and gymnastics instructors for the&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/08\/fn-1900-for-the-russian-imperial-army-fencing-gymnastics-school\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FN 1900 for the Russian Imperial Army Fencing &#038; Gymnastics School<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":11694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12883,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11693\/revisions\/12883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}