Perhaps they were made in Eibar, as asserted by Bastié & Casanova.
This final inscription states specifically that the gun is made in France, and of course the previous inscriptions said Bayonne. So it must be about this time that the following slide inscription appeared: These Type I pistols, according to Bastié & Casanova in their book Les Pistolets MAB, were made by Gregorio Bolumburu of Eibar, Spain, and had the following slide inscription on the left-handĪccording to Bastié & Casanova, in 1920 Léon Barthe formed the Manufacture d’Armes Automatiques, which shortly thereafter was renamed to Manufacture d’Armes de Bayonne, Most, including the MAB, had the manual safety moved forward of the grip, and the grip safety In large quantities in the Basque region of Northern Spain and Southern France in the first three decades of the 20th century. The gun is essentially a 6.35mm Eibar-type pistol of the sort which were manufactured The Type I MAB Model A, in one form or another, was produced from sometime before World War I until 1924.
