Savage 1907 French army.
This is a 1907 Savage which was French Military issue in WW1: 1916: Arthur Savage founded his company in 1894 to make lever action rifles. In 1905 he purchased the rights to manufacture an autoloading pistol designed by E.H. Searle.
At the beginning of World War One, France had only a small supply of woefully antiquated revolvers for service pistols, and contacted with Spanish companies for the purchase of the needed hundred of thousands of semiautomatic pistols.
However it was clear that the supply of Spanish pistols would not match the immediate demands of the war and so France also placed orders for 27,000 Savage model 1907 pistols.
The serial number and the presence of the lanyard ring both confirm that this pistol was one of those shipped to France in 1916.
Roger Papke (USA)
Savage model 1907
caliber 7.65mm (.32ACP)
