{"id":5732,"date":"2016-12-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/01\/roth-theodorovic-prototype-pistol\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T16:24:56","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T21:24:56","slug":"roth-theodorovic-prototype-pistol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/01\/roth-theodorovic-prototype-pistol\/","title":{"rendered":"Roth-Theodorovic Prototype Pistol"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-aRzpq-9WGE?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Sold for $37,375.<\/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>Georg Roth&#8217;s company in Austria presided over a wonderful variety of interesting handgun development, and this is one example of that lineage. Roth&#8217;s licensed or purchased the patent for this pistol from its inventor, Wasa Theodorovic, and turned it over to his engineer Karel Krnka to develop (I&#8217;m simplifying this). The design used a long recoil action and a rotating bolt, elements which would later find their way into the designs of Rudolf Frommer, who worked at FEG where the Roth pistols were manufactured.<\/p>\n<p>About 80 of these Roth-Theodorovic-Krnka pistols were made, with no two quite the same. They were in a constant process of development and improvement, and this (serial number 77) is one of the very last ones. It exhibits a quite refined fire control system with single and double action modes as well as a decocker. It is made yet more interesting by the addition of a grip safety, which does not appear to be a factory element. Instead, it appears to be a design patented by Tambour and installed by a contemporary gunsmith. Tambour safeties were put in a number of other types of guns at the time, including Mannlicher 1901\/1905 pistols.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related:<\/p>\n<p>Frommer 1901: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=p-CXrytOS0E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=p-CXrytOS0E<\/a><br \/>\nRoth-Theodorovic-Krnka 1895: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=f1VJCOrSOA8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=f1VJCOrSOA8<\/a><br \/>\nRoth-Steyr M1907: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=baUTYMPsh9M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=baUTYMPsh9M<\/a><br \/>\nRoth-Steyr M1907 Slow Motion: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U-G_WiK6J3o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U-G_WiK6J3o<\/a><br \/>\nRoth-Steyr M1907 Shooting Match: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-xvCNEUnT4Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-xvCNEUnT4Y<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sold for $37,375. Cool Forgotten Weapons Merch! http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons Georg Roth&#8217;s company in Austria presided over a wonderful variety of interesting handgun development, and this is one example of that lineage. Roth&#8217;s licensed or purchased the patent for this pistol from its inventor, Wasa Theodorovic, and turned it over to his engineer Karel Krnka to develop&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/01\/roth-theodorovic-prototype-pistol\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Roth-Theodorovic Prototype Pistol<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":5733,"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-5732","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\/5732","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=5732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15078,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5732\/revisions\/15078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}