First World War & Second World War

This is the actual pistol used by Princip to murder the Archduke Franz Ferdinand: a Browning 1903 Model Semi Auto Pistol.

This pistol has Fabrique National grips and maker markings with Browning's patent.

It was the standard issue pistol of the Shanghai Municipal Police. This legendary police force and its evil foes were depicted very well by Hollywood in many of it's 1930's Gangster and Gang movies centered around Shanghai, and also by the Indiana Jones movie 'The Temple of Doom'.

The Browning 1903 was also a very popular pistol with the American Gangsters of the 1930s such as Bonnie and Clyde.