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    What is this?

    A friend sent me some pics of this pistol handed down to him in the family. Looks to be a type of Browning pocket revolver? It's 6.35mm. Looks like it's missing the safety lever. I also know it has a broken firing pin. Of all the pictures my search turned up, none have the large countersunk screw above the grip, left side. Could also be missing hardware on the yolk too.
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    As I'm sure you've found, looks like some version of a Velo-Dog. Belgian or Spanish knock off perhaps?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Low & Slow View Post
    some version of a Velo-Dog
    That's what I've been googling for weeks now trying to find this variant. The Belgian ones have a different extractor mechanism on the yolk. Some of the Spanish ones come closer, but have a small screw or a screw+screw-lock. Perhaps someone has been in this one before, and replaced the screw+screw-lock with a single large headed screw. Quite the job maybe. I'll keep looking.
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    Here's another similar. The loading gate lever is off though.
    https://www.collectorsfirearms.com/p...rt-ah6595.html

    edit: one more. note the large screw. other slight differences...loading gate lever, 3 bands on the plunger rod. instead of 1.
    https://www.collectorsfirearms.com/p...og-ah6124.html
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    Thing is about the Spanish like Velo-dog and Ruby and Ibar and so on...you can look forever and find variants but never find exactly the one you have. That's why parts are hard to get and I avoided them. When they come free then your problem starts. I wouldn't restore it as they will shoot it, I don't think they were EVER safe.
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    Quote Originally Posted by browningautorifleicon View Post
    I wouldn't restore it as they will shoot it, I don't think they were EVER safe.
    you have a good point. I doubt I'd get the chance to look inside it. I think that's a Germanicon eagle on the side of the cylinder, like the nickel plated one I found a pic of.

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    The gun has a yolk?

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    Haha! autocorrect strikes again!

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