History:
While the normal pattern seemed to stay the more an unimportant part of the Lignose pistol production, as time passed, the name Lignose became kind of a synonym for the "onehand-pistol".
During the years 1913-1916, the Polish designer Withold Chylewski, resident in Vienna, designed a small automatic pistol, which could be operated with just one hand. After a number of these pistols (app. 1000 pcs.) had been produced in Switzerland by the company SIG, the company Bergmann purchased these patents and started to produce and sell these pistols for a short time.
Shortly afterwards, the Lignose Company took over the company Bergmann, and the pistols became well known as Lignose Pistols.
The production with insignations "Lignose" started after the takeover in 1922 and lasted on to around 1939, where the numbering of Bergmann was continued and just the insignation at the slide and at the grips were changed.
A big sales success did not show up, as the system of onehand cocking was widely not accepted. So there are pieces known, where the onhand cocking mechanism was blocked by a screwed sideplate. In addition, the pistol was offered to expensive related to other pistols. While pistols of Walther and Mauser costed between 22 und 36 RM, the Lignose-pistol costed not less than 42 RM.
There are no reports about amount of pistols produced, but it seems therefore they were not too many, as this pistol is already a little bit scarce today.
The Onehand- Model 2A differs from the Model 3A just in the size of the grip . The model 2A has a capacity of 6 shells, the model 3A of 9 shells.
With exception of the onhand-mechanism these pistols are identical to the normal models.
There were also pistols with factory engraving produced, as well as patterns with movable trigger guard out of brass are known.
SYSTEM: self-cocking pistol with mass system and internal hammer
CARTRIDGES : 6
CALIBRE : .25 ACP
BARREL LENGTH : 54 mm , 6 grooves right hand twisting
WEIGHT EMPTY : 400 g
TOTAL LENGTH : 120 mm
TOTAL HEIGHT : 77 mm
TOTAL WIDTH : 23 mm
TRIGGER : Single Action, onehand-cocking
SIGHT : groove and notch
SAFETY : safety-lever
FINISH : blued
GRIPS : hardrubber