See—LLAMA

Locations: Guernica, Spain
Elgoibar, Spain

Spanish firm founded in 1904 to produce inexpensive revolvers of Velo-Dog type. Sometime around 1909 the firm began to manufacture Radium revolver. In 1914 the company produced a semi-automatic pistol distributed as Ruby. This pistol soon became the mainstay of the company, with orders of 30,000 pistols a month for the French army. End of WWI Gabilondo Y Urresti moved to Elgoeibar, Spain. Company produced a Browning 1910 replica pistol until early 1930s. It was at this point that Gabilondo began to manufacture a Colt Model 1911 copy that became known as Llama. For information of specific Llama models see Llama section. Pistols listed reflect pre-Llama period and are so marked, with the trade name of that particular model. Monogram "GC" frequently appears on grips but not on slide.