Star “Trade Unionist”
Calibre 6,35mm
This model of STAR, is called here “the trade unionist”, because during the years previous the war, the trade unionists and anarchists used them to eliminate the “awkward enemy agents”.
The pistol was suspended by a string along the leg. The object time come, the assassin drew on the string, the weapon passed by the open bottom of the pocket, and it could shoot.
This stratagem was used for not to be detected at the time. The weapon was very required for its small size, and its reliability.
They are very required parts in Spain among the collectors.
You observe that all the parts are numbered, BUT that this Nº does not correspond to the serial number.
It is typical of STAR Bonifacio Echeverría. According to a book that I have, if the weapon returned to the factory and that a part was changed or modified, new Nº was applied, beside old, to trace the weapon.
This pistol is sealed with the room, I avoided photographing it.
This model, as well as the 7,65 are the typical weapons used by the anarchist-trade unionists of Barcelona and Zaragoza.
This model had been intended in theory for the police force, for its small size and the facility to dissimulate them.
Robert (Spain)
There also exists calibre 7,65 mm
