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Chaineux P.
It is of course
Chaineux Bté.
ELG:
Acceptance, between 1846 and 1893
X under
crown: countermark of a controller, between 1853 and 1877.
The 12 is
– almost certainly – a “brand” of a fondry, not a manufacturing number.
I see a
PC on the handle, and something else on the barrel on the left side that I can’t
decipher, but I don’t see anywhere the crowned V evoked by the happy owner.
There are in fact three
Chaineux:
Joseph
Lambert in Liège,
Joseph
in Wandre and
P. in Cheratte.
It could therefore be the latter.
In any case, the model seems to me to be the most
classic and I doubt that any patent will be attached to it. In any case, I don’t
have a patent from
P. Chaineux. And
the patents
Chaineux I own
have nothing to do – at first glance at least (you would have to disassemble the
revolver completely to try to figure it out) – with the revolver in question.
In any
case, let’s not forget that the reference to “patented” may mean two things: 1)
the gun in question is indeed linked to a patent filed for, generally, 10 years;
2) the gunmaker in question holds a gunmaker’s patent/diploma.
As for
the story of this revolver, I can’t add anything and I won’t let my imagination
run wild...
The fact
remains, it’s a beautiful piece.
GP
