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IDEAL Arizmendi y Goenaga From 1886 to
1914 in Eibar, Spain. AG code
Arizmendi y Goenaga was originally founded
in the 1890's making Velo Dog type revolvers and reformed in 1914 as F.
Arizmendi manufacturing semi-auto pistols in Eibar, Spain. Production
was 90,000 for France. In later years they were produced under several
trade names. They went out of business with the political upheaval
before the Civil War.
(Numbers quoted are from the Archivo Municipal
de Eibar)
IZARRA Bonifacio Echeverria.
When war broke out in 1914 Star had been selling their model 1914 to France
but they were complicated guns to make and therefore high priced.
They were in a trooper model and an officers model, in 7.65mm. France
wanted something cheaper and needing more guns than what were being produced
by others, Echeverria started making a gun similar to the Ruby and called
it the Izarra, which is Basque for Star. Continuing to sell the Star
1914 to France as well, he sold 57,000 Izarras to them according to records.
The brothers Echeverria had 54 workers when the war broke out in 1914.
Star factory in 1920
