These might cursive as well. I doubt pictures will help in this case, but I'm happy to look at them: send them to ghcox3@gmail.com. Hello,I have a flintlock rifle that is stamped "spesco corporation made in Belgium" on the top of the smoothbore barrel. Revolvers are marked on barrel, on the frame, and on each chamber. By 1931, Fabrique Nationale d'Armes de Guerre in Herstal, Belgium (FN) launched an even smaller .25 ACP pistol developed by the company's chief designer, Dieudonn Saive. Each gun maker is presented with the maximum of data available and a wealth of color pictures about the most . Hi, your shotgun was made after 1924 due to the Perron-Liege proof marks. So the only indicator of the chamber depth is found with the stamp of the Chamber dimensions? 2 On barrel locking system or chamber if the lumps are part of the barrel after final black powder proof, Preliminary proof for unfinished barrels, and indicated barrels had not been weakened after proof by breeching, Used on muzzle loaders, Bore diameter in millimeters. Originally evolved by the armourers themselves, the system of proof was in nearly every arms-producing country taken over by the Municipality or the State, who imposed a series of stringent by-laws and penalties on any who sought to evade the prescribed tests. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. I have pics of the Proof marks I want to show you. Introduced for handguns in 1894, rifles over 8mm in 1897. Thanks a ton this, helped me identify a friends old revolver. Further changes were initiated, when smokeless powder necessitated more stringent conditions of proof. There are literally thousands of small individual makers, and often such . visiting our on-line listing of manufacturers identifying marks, Belgian Liege gunmakers (D to F) - Volume 2. Modern pistols and revolvers are proved in their last stage of manufacture when complete with action and in firing order. rifle,over a 12 ga. shotgun. The rifle requirements were developed through a process of lengthy trials and included, most notably, the box magazine that could be loaded by stripper clip or by. Home | Login | Register. Home | Login | Register. stream The British Sporting Gun and Rifle: Pursuit of Perfection 1850-1900. [more like this] Belgian Flobert Style Warnant 8mm Parlor. I have got a 19th century belgian double barrel pin fire shoutgun with walnut stock(116cm). Any idea what it all means? The Baby Browning: A .25 ACP Pocket Pistol For Personal Protection Sixteen-gauge guns generally fall somewhere in between. The mark was seldom requested, Chamber dimensions in millimeters shotguns undergoing smokeless proof. into which each separate book is dealing with a small portion of the whole, and that is No small part of the Belgians' remarkableability to meet the demands of a wide variety of firms trading all over the world was their willingness to go on producing type of guns that were obsolete.
