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Melior New Model (Model 1920, Type II), 6,35 mm Browning (6,35x16 mmSR/.25 Auto)

Type: Semiautomatic pistol Produced: 1921-1958 (?) Caliber: 6,35 mm Browning (6,35x16 mmSR/.25 Auto) Action: Blowback Trigger: Single action Safety: Thumb lever (frame) Magazine: 6 rounds Sights: Rear, opens sight fixed, V notch; Front, ramp shape fixed Grooves: 6 grooves, right-hand twist, one turn in 10.63" (270 mm) Barrel length: 2.32" (59 mm) Overall length: 4.72" (120 mm) This designation of New Model is not an official designation, but is used here and elsewhere to distinguish it from the former model of the Jieffeco type. Factory literature designates it as Model 1920. The 6·35mm arm is built on a smaller but similar frame. This is the fixed-barrel type, the barrel being fixed securely in position. Near the rear end of the slide there is a slot extending not only through the slide but also through the breechblock unit which carries the breechblock, extractor, firing pin, and its spring. A sliding block fills the slot and locks the slide and breechblock units together. This little block may be removed by raising a spring-loaded latch which extends toward the rear. In the case of the 6·35 model, the rear sight is mounted on this sliding block, but on the 7·65, 9mm, and ·22 cal. models the rear sight is mounted in front of the block. Removal of this block releases the slide, which can be slid forward over the barrel, and also releases the breechblock unit, which can be slid off the rear of the frame. The recoil spring, together with a sleeve which covers its rear portion, remains in the slide and can only be removed by unscrewing a small, threaded, circular plate against which the front end of the spring rests. The sleeve surrounding the rear end of the spring serves not only as a stop for the spring but it covers about half of the shell ejection port (to keep dirt out), as in the Walther Mod. 7, when the action is closed. The earlier issues of the 6·35mm pistol have a grip safety in addition to the conventional thumb-operated safety and magazine safety, but later this grip safety was omitted. Specimen No. 102,971 and those having lower numbers have the grip safety, while specimen No. 112,470 and those having higher numbers do not. Evidently the change took place somewhere between these numbers, but at what date is not known. The Meliors of this newer type, in all calibers, are made under the design covered by patents 259,178 and 265,491. According to Hogg and Weeks, in their book Pistols of the World, the Robar company began life as Robar & de Kerkhove, which manufactured low-cost pocket revolvers in the 1890’s. However, according to John Walter, in his Dictionary of Guns and Gunmakers, a company by the name of Manufacture Liégeoise d’Armes à Feu, Robar & Companie, S.A. already had a London office in the period 1882-1884. In any case, it was the latter company, known in short as Robar et Cie. that manufactured pistols under the name Melior. Their first auto pistol appeared in 1907 and was updated in 1911. After the appearance of the New Model around 1920 the older gun became known retroactively as the Old Model Melior. The design of the New Model is derivative in many of its individual parts, though unique as a whole, and may be of interest to some as a brief chapter in the history of self-loading pistols. Indeed, Matthews, in his book Firearms Identification, Vol. I, indicates that it was the later version of the gun that lacks the grip safety, rather than the early version. A larger version of the New Model Melior was also made in 7,65 mm Browning and, according to Hogg and Weeks, after WW II a .22 caliber and .380 version were also manufactured. Credits: Author's knowledge; HOGG, Ian; WEEKS, John - Pistols of The World: A Comprehensive Illustrated Encyclopedia of The World's Pistols and Revolvers from 1870 to the Present Day. 3rd ed. Illinois: DBI Books, Inc., 1992. ISBN 0-87349-128-9; MATHEWS, J. Howard - Firearms Identification. Vol. I. 2nd printing. Springfield, Illinois, USA: Charles C. Thomas Publisher, 1973. ISBN 0-398-02355-7; https://unblinkingeye.com/Guns/MelNM/... Only for whom who wants to see other weapons: https://bit.ly/3oOqcPp #firearmsfieldstripYT