Secondly, in some specimens seen it is very easy to push the grip safety in accidentally, as the pressure required is very small. If one forgets this little detail he may be courting disaster. Firstly, when one pulls the slide back in the normal manner to transfer a cartridge from the magazine to the barrel chamber, the safety member is pushed in (as one grips the pistol) and it remains there unless one releases it by pushing in the release button. This safety device is certainly not one to be recommended because it is a very dangerous one. This causes the safety to spring out, and when in this pisition it must be depressed before the trigger can be pulled. To apply the safety, one must push in a little button which is located on the left side of the grip frame, below the rear end of the slide. When the grip safety is in the „in" position the gun can be fired by pulling the trigger, but when it is in the „out" position pulling the trigger alone, without depressing the safety, will not cause the gun to fire. This pistol has but one safety and this is a grip safety which operates in an unconventional manner. The barrel is pivoted at the rear end and can be removed by turning it at right angles, in which position it can be slid out. To disassemble, the magazine is first removed and the slide is pulled back and then allowed to move forward slowly until it comes into a position where it can easily be lifted off. 1910, but internally it is quite different (Fig. The pistol has an outward appearance similar to the F.N. The first prototypes are thought to have been made in Belgium in 191516. The pistol was designed by Heinrich Ortgies, said to have been a German by birth but who was a resident of Liege, Belgium, until about the close of World War I. It is fitted with standard wood grips with the "DS" inlay on each side and comes in a contemporary custom made fitted rosewood display case.The Ortgies pistols are unique in design, although inevitably they have some features in common with other automatic pistols. The right side of the frame, slide and barrel all carry the standard "Crown/N" proof mark and is dated "39" on the rear upper, underside of the frame. As noted the pistol has the standard slide and frame markings, with no other embellishments. The gold bar has been undercut and the left end shows signs of where it was hammered in and then polished before it was engraved. The pistol itself, as noted is a relatively plain example with standard markings and features, except for the small, approximately 1 inch long gold inlaid bar on the right side of the slide, which has been hand engraved in a watchmakers, style with Roman font letters "EVA BRAUN". The current owner/consignor has had the pistol in his possession since then. Captain Showalter retained this specific pistol until it was given to his daughter, who eventually sold it to the current owner in 1997. In a signed letter from Captain Showalter, he stated that the Munich Chief of Police personally removed this pistol from Eva Braun's residence after the war and had placed it in the storage area. It was during this time that Lieutenant Showalter was able to obtain this specific pistol. The Police Chief allowed Lieutenant Showalter from time to time to go through the warehouse/storage areas of confiscated weapons. Be befriended the local game warden and eventually the Police Chief of Munich. The original owner of this rare pistol was a Captain Showalter, (Ret.) who at the time was a 1st Lieutenant stationed in Germany in1945 and was responsible for overseeing the cleanup of left over war material in and around Munich. The exact make and model of that pistol were generally unknown until this pistol and documentation surfaced. It has been a known fact that Eva Braun carried a small 25 ACP pistol that was given to her by Adolf Hitler. This pistol itself is a rather plain and diminutive, Deutsche Werkes Ortgies semi-automatic that was made in 1939 and is not what you would expect from someone in her position, or one that was given by the Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler, however the accompanying documents substantiate the historical lineage from the time it was removed from Eva Bruan's house in Munich in 1945, by the Munich Chief of police to the present day consignor. This pistol is documented as being the "One of A Kind", personal "25 ACP" pistol that was given to "Eva Bruan" personally by Adolf Hitler.