Husqvarna Model 1907

When Germany occupied Belgium 1914 the deliveries of m/1907 ceased from FN. Sweden took the decision to build the pistol at Husqvarna Vapenfabrik. The tools for the production were not ready until 1917, when the production of the Swedish pistol m/1907 started in Sweden.

There are two parallel lines of numbers – one civilian (normally marked H) and one military.

Lack of military pistols resulted in that civilian produced pistols became military with military acceptance markings with a complete confusion of numbers as the result. The age of a pistol can only be judged by looking at the text on the slide and combine this information with the serial number.

There are civilian m/07 which became military and military which became civilians.

There are FN produced pistols (M1903) which are without any acceptance stamps as well as HVA this indicates that the pistol was sold directly to a civilian from Berghaus in case of FN or from HVA as the civilian model No 500.

The pistol m/1907 was produced at Husqvarna Vapenfabrik until 1941 when HVA started to make pistol m/1940. After that 584 pistols m/1907 were put together by old spare parts until 1942. Still when the pistols were sent for destruction by the turn of the millennium there were enough spare parts to make more than 200 pistols out of these, but everything went for destruction.

Serial number

Year of production

1 - 1 550

Made 1917-1918

1 2051 - 16 050

Made  from March31 1933

90 211 - 96 000

Made 1918

100 001 - 100 577

Made 1918 for civilian sales

100 578 - 100 661

Made 1921 for the Army

100662 - ?

Made 1918 for the Army

100 976 - 101 006

Made 1921 or the Army

102 077 - 102 733

Made 1926 -1927  or the Army

104 000 - ?

Made 1937 for export

105 000 - 107 000+

Made after 1939

Test model of m/07 in 9x19 mm Crtg m/39

80 931 - 80 945

15 pistols made

There are five different texts on the slides of the Husqvarna pistols due to when they were made.

The oldest text was:

1. Husqvarna Vapenfabriks Aktiebolag Brownings Patent.

HUSQVARNA VAPENFABRIKS AKTIEBOLAG; BROWNINGS PATENT

This HVA from 1918 was refurbished much later, sand blasted and blued.

All FN made pistols should be beautifully polished and browned deep blue like the first Husqvarna made. Later HVA were blasted with sand and blued. If you find a pistol of old type sand blasted, then it most likely has been sent for refurbishing and sandblasted afterwards, like the pistol from 1918 above.

FN did not like this text with Browning’s Patent and wrote 1919 a letter to Husqvarna and threatened with an application for a summons if Husqvarna GF didn't change the text.

The text was changed to:

2. Husqvarna Vapenfabriks Aktiebolag, System Browning.

"HUSQVARNA VAPENFABRIKS AKTIEBOLAG SYSTEM BROWNING" for the Royal Navy = K. FL.

Next step was to leave the text about Browning all together. From about 1930 the text was:

3. Husqvarna Vapenfabriks Aktiebolag.

This text is common on both military and civilian guns. This text also appears on a picture of No 500 in the civilian arms catalogue from HVA from 1932.

All these different texts above are found on both military and civilian produced pistols.

Text: HUSQVARNA VAPENFABRIKS AKTIEBOLAG

This gun belonged to the Air force and the serial number starts with "F".

Here you can see a page in the Husqvarna catalogue from 1932 were the civilian pistol was offered for 65 Swedish krona (€ 7.00 or $ 9.00).