WED SEPT 16, MAUSER M1921 “BOLO” BROOMHANDLE PISTOL, NON-CHINESE, DECENT!

This is a very tough gun to locate in any decent condition!  In 85% well used condition   we have a Mauser Model 1896/21 “Bolo Model” Pistol.  This pistol is import marked and was imported from eastern Europe, possibly Romania.  The bore is excellent as well.  The pistol shows it was well used and then tossed into an arsenal for storage.  We normally do not handle guns in this condition, but it came in a collection that we picked up and I thought it would be a very inexpensive way to get into a broomhandle for collector training and exposure to this famous pistol.  

The name Bolo is a derivative of Bolshevik and the pistols got this nickname due to the fact that they were purchased in large qualities by the Red Army and used in the many small wars of the 1920’s such as their fight with Poland.  They might just have easily been called the “Chinese Warlord Model” as the vast majority of these pistols that were sold went to arm the various competing forces in China.  This is a very typical early production example that would have been made in the early to mid 1920’s.