History:
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.
Appearently the company choosed a second ways, in case the onehand design would not succeed, and therefore beside the onehand-types also conventional types were produced.
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.
There are no reports about amount of pistols produced, but it seems they were not too many, as this pistol is already a little bit scarce today.
The normal Model 2 differs from the Model 3 just in the size of the grip . The model 2 has a capacity of 6 shells, the model 3 of 9 shells.
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 : 390 g
TOTAL LENGTH : 117 mm
TOTAL HEIGHT : 78 mm
TOTAL WIDTH : 23 mm
TRIGGER : Single Action
SIGHT : groove and notch
SAFETY : safety-lever
FINISH : blued
GRIPS : hardrubber