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**Jason** · 04-14-2009, 08:45 PM

Hi P.
These are very well made.I believe if you take it apart you will find the inside is "jeweled"...Let us know.

**Douglas Jr.** · 04-15-2009, 08:41 AM

That's a very nice Astra 900!
Congratulations!
The capital letter, just above the right grip indicate the manufacture year. If I read correctly, it is an "E", which date this gun as made in 1932. During WWII around 1000 of the Astras 900s were sold to nazi Germany.

From the site www.1896mauser.com I found the following information that you may find interesting:

"Unceta jumped into the ersatz Mauser market in late 1927 with the Model 900. Soon, in its race to keep up with the competition, more models would join the 900. Eventually there would be seven distinct models, all together making up the 900 Series - the Models 900 through 904, the Model F, and the Model E. So the simple designation "900" could apply to the model, or to the series. For instance, the Model 904 was part of the 900 Series, but it was of course not the same gun as the Model 900. Probably when Unceta named the Model 900, nobody realized that successive models would appear - if they had, the first model of the 900 Series would probably have been named something sensible, like the Model 901. But as it happened, the first model was the Model 900.

Successive 900 Series models added features (select-fire, larger magazines, detachable magazines, Largo caliber, and an auto fire rate reducer) and fiddled around with barrel lengths. All 900 Series guns were numbered in the same serial number sequence, starting with 1 and ending some twenty-four years later with 34336. A few small serial number blocks were skipped, so the total number of 900 series gun made was a bit shy of 34,336. Guns were made in batches of various sizes, so any year's production might be made up of several different models.

Unceta didn't devote heroic efforts to lightening every possible part to the same extent as did Mauser, so all 900 series guns were notably heavier than Mauser-made guns."

You can read more on this page: http://www.1896mauser.com/unceta.htm

Greetings,

Douglas

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