Colt Model 1908 Vest Pocket

The Colt Model 1908 Vest Pocket is an American pistol designed by John Moses Browning and produced by Colt's Manufacturing Company from 1908 to 1948. Designed to be a small, light, concealable pistol, the name and marketing touted its ability to be comfortably carried in the pocket of a men's vest daily. It is very similar visually and mechanically to the earlier FN Model 1905 and its successor, the Baby Browning. 420,705 were produced in total. Along with its popularity on the civilian market, some Model 1908s were used by clandestine forces during World War II, such as the British Special Operations Executive, favored as a back-up or holdout weapon due to its concealable nature. 
Like John Browning's other successful pocket pistol designs, the Model 1908 design was extensively copied, with numerous licensed and unlicensed models in existence. 
==Specifications==
(1908 - 1948)
* Type: Pistol
* Caliber(s): .25 ACP
* Weight: 0.81 lb (0.37 kg)
* Length: 4.5 in (11.4 cm)
* Barrel length(s): 2 in (5.1 cm)
* Capacity: 6-round box magazine
* Fire Modes: Semi-Auto (SA)
=== Film ===
Title 	Actor 	Character 	Note 	Date
I'm Your Woman 	Rachel Brosnahan 	Jean 	Nickel plated 	2020
Deadpool (2016) 	Ryan Reynolds 	Wade Wilson/Deadpool 	Blue finish, pearl grips 	2016
Courier of Special Importance (Kurersky osoboy vazhnosti) 	Viktoriya Poltorak	Diana Kholodova 	 	2013
Interview with a Hitman 	 	Interviewer 	 	2012
Hotel Lux 	Thekla Reuten 	Frida van Oorten 	 	2011
Inglourious Basterds 	Mélanie Laurent 	Shosanna Dreyfus 	Possibly a FN Model 1905 	2009
The Black Dahlia 	Fiona Shaw 	Ramona Linscott 	 	2006
The Business 	Danny Dyer 	Frankie 	Engraved, stainless/nickel	2005
Heist 	Gene Hackman 	Joe 	 	2001
Heist 	Rebecca Pidgeon 	Fran 	 	2001
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery 	Mimi Rogers 	Mrs. Kensington 	Nickel 	1997
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery 	Elizabeth Hurley 	Vanessa Kensington 	Nickel 	1997
Mulholland Falls 	Titus Welliver 	Kenny Kamins 	 	1996
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension	Ellen Barkin 	Penny Priddy 	 	1984
Operation Condor 	Jackie Chan 	Asian Hawk - Condor 	Nickel 	1991
Operation Condor 	Jonathan Isgar 	Tasza 	Nickel 	1991
Dead Again 	Derek Jacobi 	Franklyn Madson 	Nickel with pearl grips 	1991
Dead Again 	Emma Thompson 	Grace 	Nickel with pearl grips 	1991
Dead Again 	Kenneth Branagh 	Mike Church 	Nickel with pearl grips 	1991
Psycho II 	Meg Tilly 	Mary Loomis 	Pearl grips 	1983
The Sea Wolves 	David Niven 	Col. Grice 	 	1980
The Cheap Detective 	Peter Falk 	Lou Peckinpaugh 	 	1978
Murder by Death 	Peter Sellers 	Sidney Wang 	 	1976
99 and 44/100% Dead 	Bradford Dillman 	Big Eddie 	 	1974
Chinatown 	Faye Dunaway 	Evelyn Mulwray 	 	1974
Bloody Mama 	Shelley Winters 	Kate "Ma" Barker 	 	1970
Marlowe 	James Garner 	Phillip Marlowe 	 	1969
Marlowe 	Gayle Hunnicutt 	Maevis Wald 	 	1969
The Ambushers 	Dean Martin 	Matt Helm 	 	1967
The Ambushers 	Sheila Sommers 	 	 	1967
The Devil's Daffodil 	Ingrid van Bergen 	Gloria 	nickel 	1961
The Devil's Daffodil 	Walter Gotell 	Chiefinspector Whiteside	nickel 	1961
The Devil's Daffodil 	Christopher Lee 	Ling Chu 	nickel 	1961
North by Northwest 	Eva Marie Saint 	Eve Kendall 	 	1959
North by Northwest 	Martin Landau 	Leonard 	 	1959
Riff Raff Girls (Du rififi chez les femmes) 	Silvia Monfort 	Yoko 	Nickel with pearl grips 	1959
Riff Raff Girls (Du rififi chez les femmes) 	Eddie Constantine 	Williams 	Nickel with pearl grips 	1959
Riff Raff Girls (Du rififi chez les femmes) 	Nadja Tiller 	Vicky de Berlin 	Nickel with pearl grips 	1959
The Bonnie Parker Story 	Dorothy Provine 	Bonnie Parker 	 	1958
The Desperate Hours 	Dewey Martin 	Hal Griffin 	Engraved with pearl grips 	1955
Across the Pacific 	Sydney Greenstreet	Doctor Lorenz 	 	1951
Stray Dog 	Toshirô Mifune 	Detective Murakami 	 	1949
Stray Dog 	Isao Kimura 	Yusa 	 	1949
Lady in the Lake 	Lloyd Nolan 	Lt. DeGarmot 	 	1947
Lady in the Lake 	Robert Montgomery 	Marlowe 	 	1947
The Spider Woman 	Basil Rathbone 	Sherlock Holmes 	 	1944
Saboteur 	Belle Mitchell 	Adele 	 	1942
The Maltese Falcon 	Humphrey Bogart 	Sam Spade 	 	1941
The Maltese Falcon 	Sydney Greenstreet	Kasper Gutman 	 	1941
The Maltese Falcon 	Peter Lorre 	Joel Cairo 	 	1941
Torture Ship 	Julie Bishop 	Joan Martel 	 	1939
Torture Ship 	Sheila Bromley 	Poison Mary Slavish 	 	1939
Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police 	John Howard 	Bulldog Drummond 	 	1939
Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police 	E.E. Clive 	"Tenny" Tennison 	 	1939
Satan Met a Lady 	Bette Davis 	Valerie Purvis 	 	1936
Satan Met a Lady 	Alison Skipworth 	Madame Barabbas 	 	1936
The 39 Steps 	Godfrey Tearle 	Professor Jordan 	 	1935
The Maltese Falcon 	Dudley Digges 	Casper Gutman 	 	1931
The Maltese Falcon 	Bebe Daniels 	Ruth Wonderly 	 	1931
By Rocket to the Moon 	Fritz Rasp 	Turner 	 	1929
=== Television ===
Show Title 	Actor 	Character 	Note / Episode 	Air Date
Gilligan's Island - Season 2 	Alan Hale Jr. 	The Skipper 	nickel finish, ivory grips / "Not Guilty" (S02E16)	1966
Hawaii Five-O 	James MacArthur 	Danny "Danno" Williams 	S1E14 "King of the Hill" 	1968
Hawaii Five-O 	Yaphet Kotto 	Lance Corporal John T. Auston	S1E14 "King of the Hill" 	1968
M*A*S*H 	Loretta Swit 	Maj. Margaret Houlihan 	S3E02 "Rainbow Bridge" 	1974
M*A*S*H 	Larry Linville 	Maj. Frank Burns 	S3E02 "Rainbow Bridge" 	1974
State Border: Film 3, The 	Inara Guliyeva 	Olga Anisimova 	 	1982
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Channon Roe 	Douglas Granger 	"Weeping Willows" 	2002-2012
Julie Lescaut 	Élisabeth Bourgine	Laurence Nobel 	Nickel /S16E03 "Une affaire jugée" 	2005
Monk 	Emmanuelle Vaugier	Pat 	 	2006
Banshee - Season 1 	 	 	in opening titles in episode 10 	2013
Bonnie and Clyde (2013) 	Holliday Grainger 	Bonnie Parker 	 	2013
Bonnie and Clyde (2013) 	Emile Hirsch 	Clyde Barrow 	 	2013
Father Brown 	John Light 	Flambeau 	"The Blue Cross" (S01E10) 	2013
===Video Game===
Game Title 	Appears as 	Note 	Release Date
Team Fortress 2	"Pretty Boy's Pocket Pistol"	Stylized and oversized model w/ wood grips and left handed ejection, magazine holds 9 rounds	2007
===Anime===
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|Gunsmith Cats|| || || 1995 - 1996
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|Kochikame||Volvo Saigo|| || 1996 - 2005
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| Case Closed - Season 12 || Vermouth || Ep. "Head-to-Head Match with the Black Organization: A Dual Mystery on a Full Moon Night" || 2003 - 2004
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| Burn-Up Scramble || Maya Jingu || || 2004
|-
|Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo||The Count||Safety and lower trigger guard removed||2004 - 2005
|-
| Case Closed - Season 17 || Vermouth || Ep. "The Clash of Red and Black (Killed in the Line of Duty)"; flashback || 2008 - 2009
|-
|Future Diary || Minene Uryuu || Ep. 12 "No Service Area" || 2011
|-
| Stella Women's Academy, High School Division Class C³ || Sonora Kashima || airsoft || 2013
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|}
== MAPF Unique mod 10 ==
thumb|right|400px|A version of Unique Model 10, produced in France for export by Lepco Fire-Arms - .25 ACP
The MAPF Unique mod 10 is a French copy of the Colt Model 1908 Vest Pocket. It was produced by Manufacture d'Armes des Pyrénées (MAPF) in Hendaye circa 1925-1940. Virtually all the surviving brand names were abandoned after the German invasion in 1940 and the subsequent partition of France. For example, Lepco was a .25 ACP model made for the "Lepco Firearms Company" (L. Le Personne & Co. ), a distributor working in London. 
=== Film ===
Title 	Actor 	Character 	Note	Date
Highway Pick-Up (Chair de poule) 	Jean Sorel 	Paul Genest 	 	1963
The Dirty Game 	Peter van Eyck 	Petchatkin 	 	1965
Blue Panther (Marie Chantal contre Dr. Kha)	Stéphane Audran	Olga 	 	1965
Blue Panther (Marie Chantal contre Dr. Kha)	Marie Laforêt 	Marie-Chantal	 	1965
=== Television ===
Title 	Actor 	Character 	Note/Episode 	Date
Stawka wieksza niz zycie 	Iga Cembrzynska 	Benita von Henning 	"Ostatnia szansa" (S1E05) 	1968
Stawka wieksza niz zycie 	Aleksandra Zawieruszanka	Edyta Lausch 	"Edyta" (S1E14) 	1968
Stawka wieksza niz zycie 	Barbara Horawianka 	Anne-Marie Elken 	Lepco; "Spotkanie" (S1E17)	1968
Stawka wieksza niz zycie 	Barbara Brylska 	Inga 	Lepco; "Spotkanie" (S1E17)	1968
Shadows Disappear at Noon (Teni ischezayut v polden)	Aleksandra Zavyalova 	Seraphima Klychkova	Ep.1 	1972
== Astra-Unceta Victoria 1911 Model ==
The Astra-Unceta Victoria 1911 Model is a Spanish copy of the Colt Model 1908 Vest Pocket. It was produced in several calibers and barrel lengths from 1908 by the company Unceta y Esperanza (renamed Astra in 1914) based in Eibar in the north of Spain. The most notable differences are the location of the safety lever and design of the front part of the barrel.
=== Film ===
Title 	Actor 	Character 	Note	Date
Canal (Kanal) 	Emil Karewicz 	Lt. 'Madry' 	 	1957
Canal (Kanal) 	Teresa Berezowska	Halinka 	 	1957
Legenda o živých mrtvých	Bohumil Slezácek 	MUDr. Vinkler	 	1971
== MAB Model A Type II ==
The MAB Model A is a .25 ACP pocket pistol made by Manufacture d'armes de Bayonne (MAB) in France from 1925 to 1963. The Type I MAB Model A is nearly identical to the Astra-Unceta Victoria 1911 Model pistols which were manufactured in large quantities in the Basque region of Northern Spain and Southern France in the first three decades of the 20th century. The Type II MAB Model A diverged from the design of the Eibar pistols, and features a number of simplifications designed to speed up manufacture. After the Second World War, MAB pistols were imported into the United States by the Western Arms Corporation, and later sold by its distributor, the Winfield Arms Corporation (WAC).
=== Television ===
Title 	Actor 	Character 	Note/Episode 	Date
Dempsey and Makepeace 	Glynis Barber	Det. Sgt. Harry Makepeace	Nickel plated, "Cry God for Harry" (S1E09)	1985
Dempsey and Makepeace 	Garry Cooper 	Swabey 	Nickel plated, "Out of Darkness" (S3E07) 	1986
Agatha Christie's Poirot: Murder in the Mews	Juliette Mole	Jane Plenderleith 	Nickel plated 	1989
Nestor Burma - Season 1 	 	 	"Les Cadavres de la plaine Monceau" (S1E2)	1991
==Airsoft Replicas==
===Galaxy G1 Full Metal===
The Galaxy G1 Full Metal is a full scale Colt Model 1908 Vest Pocket replica airsoft pistol. One feature of it that can be identified from an actual Colt is the magazine release; the airsoft replica is modelled with both a button and heel magazine release, but the latter is cosmetic and only the button release is functional.
====Television====
Title 	Actor 	Character 	Note/Episode	Date
The Street (Ulice)	Jana Sováková 	Ingrid Šmídová 	 	2005-Present
The Street (Ulice)	Tereza Bebarová	Světlana Nyklová	 	2005-Present
=See Also=
*Colt's Manufacturing Company - A list of all firearms manufactured by Colt. 
Category:Gun
Category:Pistol