Slightly OT but since there was at least one of the all too typical mentions above of "junk" Spanish pistols, I am required to say: I think from my research that's rather more a rumor than the truth.
http://star-firearms.com/firearms/guns/izarra/index.shtml
The French WW1 Ruby pistols were made by a very, very large number of contractors and subcontractors due to the large order and, at the time, very distributed workshop manufacturing base in Spain (especially Eibar). Issued pistols were, as far as I can tell with actual records, extant examples, etc. all good to excellent.
But, that's because the French actually inspected them before acceptance. And it
seems that those rejected were mostly not reworked or junked, but sold off by the makers at fire sale prices, in other regions and/or after the war. This — I think but it's complex and about percception and rumor, so there's no good way to
prove it — that this led to private gun owners, then shops and distributors, to generally believe Spain was a hotbed of cheap, junky, even dangerous pistol production.
Which is too bad as there's NO other evidence I can find of a long period, maker, or model of Spanish pistols from then to the death of the domestic firearms industry in the 1990s with any quality issues. Unlike, say, the cheap post-war pistols and revolvers (think RG) from Germany, that somehow didn't destroy the reputation of Germans as quality makers generally.