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LOT 514
Exceptional Cased
Ludwig Loewe Model
1893 Borchardt Semi-
Automatic Pistol with
Matching Numbered
Accessories - Serial no.
664, 7.65 Borchardt Auto
cal., 7 1/2 inch round bbl., blue
finish, walnut stock, checkered walnut grips. Developed
by Hugo Borchardt and manufactured by Ludwig Loewe
& Company, the 1893 Borchardt was among the first semi- automatic pistols to arrive on the market. Borchardt’s
design introduced many mechanical principles and design concepts that would be revisited and refined by Georg Luger to make the famous “Pistole Parabellum” Model 1900, essentially making the Borchardt the forefather of about half a century of European military and commercial handguns. The most critical feature taken up by Luger was the 1893’s toggle-locked short-recoil action, which gives the pistol its distinctive profile.
THIS EXCEPTIONAL 1893 BORCHARDT PISTOL HAS MATCHING NUMBERS ON THE MAGAZINES AND COMBINATION STOCK HOLSTER
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